All Elliott Carter Quotes
- When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time. All
- 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 sent… Accept
- Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem. Challenges
- 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 there… Article
- My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World… Always Known
- Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore. Bring
- Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America. America
- Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces,… Advanced
- Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris. Almost Every
- That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms… Bad
- Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new… Aaron
- Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down… Barber
- The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different… All
- The Quartets have been a major part of my work. Been
- An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments. Act
- In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. Any
- It was only later on that I became more interested in older music. Became
- These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people. Contemporary
- Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was… All
- I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was… Contemporary
- 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… Abilities
- 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… Charles
- My compositions deserve the medal, not me. Compositions