Elliott Carter Quotes
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. - Elliott Carter
Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
- Elliott Carter
When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.
- 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 there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.
- Elliott Carter
Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities.
- Elliott Carter
These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.
- 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 was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.
- Elliott Carter
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.
- Elliott Carter
The Quartets have been a major part of my work.
- 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 Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.
- Elliott Carter
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