Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though... →
Deana 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... →
Elliott Carter
When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.
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... →
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... →
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
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 remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved... →
Gary Carter
There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it... →
Graydon Carter
A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food tourists. To... →