Quotes about Elliott Carter

That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We...

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

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Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and...

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

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Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written...

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My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that...

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It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.

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In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had...

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I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at...

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I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the...

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