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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
  • 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.
    - Elliott Carter
  • In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
    - 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.
    - Elliott Carter
  • When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.
    - 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.
    - Elliott Carter