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Contemporary Quotes by Elliott Carter
- These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.
- 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…
- 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…
More Contemporary Quotes
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece. — Orlando Bloom
- I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak… — Bono
- The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. — Spiro T. Agnew
- The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. — Jorge Luis Borges
- While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is… — Geraldine Brooks
- One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and… — Joseph Campbell
- Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great… — Michael N. Castle
- If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new… — Thomas Cochrane
- I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any… — Francesca Annis
- Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who… — June Jordan