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Elliott Carter

"An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments."

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"An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments."

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"I write, but I also act."

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"Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which."

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"It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it."

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"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."

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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

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"The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator."

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"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."

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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

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"And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing."

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"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours."

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"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."
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"Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris."
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"It was only later on that I became more interested in older music."
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"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."
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"Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America."
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"When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time."
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"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."
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"Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore."
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"These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people."
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"In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer."
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