"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 music to Europe."

-- Elliott Carter

#War Quotes #Army Quotes #Europe Quotes

“Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.”
“Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.”
“I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong hereâ€”that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.”
“ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.”
“It is not necessary to seek the truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church; since the apostles, like a rich man [depositing his money] in a bank, lodged in her hands most copiously all things pertaining to the truth.”
“My aim is to say that the machinery of the heavens is not like a divine animal but like a clock (and anyone who believes a clock has a soul gives the work the honour due to its maker) and that in it almost all the variety of motions is from one very simple magnetic force acting on bodies, as in the clock all motions are from a very simple weight.”
“I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me.”
“At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

You may also like:

Aaron Copland
Composer
Charles Ives
Composer
George Crumb
Composer
John Cage
Composer
Luciano Berio
Composer
Milton Babbitt
Composer
Nadia Boulanger
Composer
Pierre Boulez
Composer
Roger Sessions
Composer