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Elliott Carter

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

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Donna Grant

"I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics."

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Donna Grant

"On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them."

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Donna Grant

"I've always wanted to perform on the London stage."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place."

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Donna Grant

"On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me."

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Donna Grant

"Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'"

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Donna Grant

"Of course I've done musicals here in London."

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Donna Grant

"John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London."

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Donna Grant

"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting."

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Donna Grant

"In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise."

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Elliott Carter
"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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Elliott Carter
"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."

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

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

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Elliott Carter
"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."

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

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