Elliott Carter Quotes

The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

The public doesn't want new music.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.

There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

My goal is really to continue to make music. I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music, and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.

I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

I wanted contemporary music to be treated the same as the traditional repertoire - performed regularly by people who knew each other and the music. That is the way you convince an audience.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

One hundred years ago free schools were little known in the United States. There were excellent schools for the well-to-do and charitable institutions for the instruction of boys and girls without means; but the free public school, open alike to the children of the rich and poor and supported by the State, awaited creation and development. The seed planted soon bore fruit. Free schools were the necessary supplement of free men. The wise and liberal provisions for public instruction by the fathers, second only in effect to their struggle for the independence and creation of the Union, were destined at no distant date to produce the most wonderful results.

The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.

I love working with children, and I love music.

I just love music, and I love what music does for people.

The only thing I've ever offered the public is some music. If they like the music, that's great. Turn on the radio. If they don't like it, switch it off.

I love the whole aspect of music, especially the singing; I never get tired of finding new songs to sing and sing them in a way that's interesting for the public.

I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone.

I went to Appalachian State University, which was very bluegrass- and folk-oriented.

I just play music, you know what I mean? That's what I want to spend my time talking about.

Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.

I've largely focused on Japan my whole career, so I was interested to see how my music would be received by people of different backgrounds, religions and cultures.

Since I was a little child, I always wanted to do music. That was my passion.

My favorite thing to do is make music. It's what I spend most of my free time doing.