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1. "Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem." ~ Elliott Carter
2. "I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college." ~ Elliott Carter
3. "Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music." ~ Elliott Carter
4. "I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public." ~ Elliott Carter
5. "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." ~ Elliott Carter
6. "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." ~ Elliott Carter
7. "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." ~ Elliott Carter
8. "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
9. "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
10. "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
11. "Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris." ~ Elliott Carter
12. "Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore." ~ Elliott Carter
13. "An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments." ~ Elliott Carter
14. "In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer." ~ Elliott Carter
15. "It was only later on that I became more interested in older music." ~ Elliott Carter
16. "Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America." ~ Elliott Carter
17. "The Quartets have been a major part of my work." ~ Elliott Carter
18. "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
19. "When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time." ~ Elliott Carter

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