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Elliott Carter

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

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Donna Grant

"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

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Donna Grant

"The world system is employment."

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Donna Grant

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

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Donna Grant

"Do not be weary to make money."

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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Donna Grant

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

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Donna Grant

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

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Donna Grant

"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."

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Donna Grant

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

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"Do all the work you while you still have strength."

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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
"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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Elliott Carter
"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
"That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are."

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

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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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