Elliott Carter Music Quotations

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.

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.

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.

The Royal Festival Hall, I don't know whether it was 80 or 70, gave a whole festival of my music there with orchestra and everything. String quartets.

The idea of counterpoint for instance is something that has invaded my music and very few people to date can write counterpoint.