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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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"Life is defined by time and seasons."

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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

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"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

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"They say "time is money". But I want to say "time makes money". This means time is greater than money."

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"But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool,And Time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop."

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"All things are made beautiful at a timely hour."

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"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Much rain wears the marble."

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"Don't depend on the thoughts, "I need more time". There are only 24 hours in each day. You can't make it 25 or 26. You just have to plan your activities very well so as to achieve the expected things with the natural time limit."

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"Four days will quickly steep themselves in nightsFour nights will quickly dream away the time."

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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
"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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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
"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
"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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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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"The Quartets have been a major part of my work."

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

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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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