Contemporary Quote by Elliott Carter

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

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

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

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

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.

— Elliott Carter

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

The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.

— Elliott Carter

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

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

— Elliott Carter

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

Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

— Elliott Carter

Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come…

— Elliott Carter