34 Quotes by Elliott Carter

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

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

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

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.

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.

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.

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.