Elliott Carter Quotes

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

My family's a very musical family, so music's always been a part of my life.

My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.

You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall.

I've been studying on my own. I'm not really trained. I went to school for about a year and a half. I never really studied music, but, I mean, I did. I studied for two years, maybe.

I studied music at Dakhhini.

I'm so jealous of my friends who came from these super musical households where they were learning piano at three years old. My parents didn't really play loads of music around the house. We had the radio, but they weren't teaching me about music.

Brahms is life-changing every time. And though I love him, I can't say that about Mompou.

I grew up in a musical atmosphere at home.

I come up from a music background.

I've been doing music since sixth grade.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence.

I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

I grew up in a musical environment. My parents played music and had it playing on the radio. They brought me to a concert at the age of 5, the same age I started violin lessons.

Music is such a big part of my life.

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.