I think more audiences would like contemporary music if they were presented with it, told about it. It's just a matter of familiarity, I think. Then one begins to look back at old music as stuffy, or even tiresome. It's funny — I'm beginning to like older music more than I used to, but it's like I'm going into a museum and contemplating a Rembrandt. It just feels like its part of the aristocratic class system of kings and queens and dukes which just doesn't exist anymore.


From American Gothic: An Interview with Elliott Carter (1993) by Andy Carvin.

Elliott Carter Quotes

I think more audiences would like contemporary music if they were presented with it, told about it. It's just a matter of familiarity, I think. Then...

I think more audiences would like contemporary music if they were presented with it, told about it. It's just a matter of familiarity, I think. Then...

I think more audiences would like contemporary music if they were presented with it, told about it. It's just a matter of familiarity, I think. Then...

I think more audiences would like contemporary music if they were presented with it, told about it. It's just a matter of familiarity, I think. Then...