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