"Since I'm allergic to various things, the army……" — 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 sent music to Europe."
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23 Quotes by Elliott Carter
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When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad…
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Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
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Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the…
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My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to…
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Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
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Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
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Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one…
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Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.
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That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces…
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Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was…
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Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam…
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The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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