"People call my music complex because I will have instruments playing at their own paces, as if the other instruments weren't even there. It doesn't march along in the same way that most older music does. But to me, I honestly don't think that a work like Debussy's La Mer is any less complex than my work. It's full of all sorts of sounds and textures going on at once, yet we still look at is as beautiful, structured and fluid. That's all I'm trying to do; I'm not out to compose for complexity's sake."
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From American Gothic: An Interview with Elliott Carter (1993) by Andy Carvin.
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Elliott Carter
Elliott Carter (11 December 1908 – 5 November 2012) was an American composer of classical music.
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