"Yes, I get a report from BMI about……" — Elliott Carter
"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, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio."
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Elliott Carter
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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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Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office…
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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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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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More Advanced Quotes
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
— Aristophanes
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Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact…
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced…
— John Adams
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement…
— Niels Bohr
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.
— Jeff Bridges
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I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming…
— David Byrne
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
— Stephen Ambrose
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I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and…
— Hermann Kolbe
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions -…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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