I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like Schubert, the… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
