Elliott Carter Quotes & Sayings
22 most famous Elliott Carter quotes and sayings (composer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.”
“Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.”
“Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.”
“Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.”
“An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.”
“My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.”
“Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.”
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