"An auditory scenario for the players to act……" — Elliott Carter

"An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments."

— Elliott Carter

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23 Quotes by Elliott Carter

Elliott Carter has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad…
Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office…
Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the…
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to…
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one…
Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.
That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces…
Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was…
Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam…

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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