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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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"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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"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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"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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"Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way."
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"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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"Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America."
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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 I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time."
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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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"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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