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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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"To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years."

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

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"In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being."

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

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"The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world."

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"There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city."

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"I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?"

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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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"When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London."

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"I don't think Lloyd's of London would insure this mouth."

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Elliott Carter
"My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me."

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Elliott Carter
"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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"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
"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."

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Elliott Carter
"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."

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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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Elliott Carter
"Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore."

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

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