It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.
Elliott Carter
These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.
Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the... →
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... →
Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent... →
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... →
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... →
I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
Gary Carter
You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.
Graydon Carter
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter