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

— Elliott Carter

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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. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#after #always #around #before #born

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#bring #duo #employed #fore #movements

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. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#because #big #big problems #brahms #distressing

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. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#article #aunt #boy #brooklyn #choose

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#advanced #frequency #get #i #most

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#beauty #considered #except #ideal #never

That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86. ↗

— Gary Carter

#every #first #kid #league #major

I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit. ↗

— David Zucker

#cockpit #funny #guys #hayden #hour

To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special. ↗

— Gary Carter

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