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

Author: Elliott Carter - American Composer
  More , America , Talking , Europe


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.

Author: Elliott Carter - American Composer
  About , Get , Yes , Radio


Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

Author: Elliott Carter - American Composer
  Big , London , Paris , Concert


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.

Author: Elliott Carter - American Composer
  More , Never , Serious , Study


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.

Author: Elliott Carter - American Composer
  Music , You , Good , Style


When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

Author: Elliott Carter - American Composer
  Time , Sad , Paris , Flow


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.

Author: Elliott Carter - American Composer
  Music , Me , War , Army


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.

Author: Elliott Carter - American Composer
  Music , View , Man , Personality


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.

Author: Elliott Carter - American Composer
  Time , Lunch , War , Together


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.

Author: Elliott Carter - American Composer
  Two , Things , Different , Violin


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