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Benjamin Britten12 quotes“I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.”
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One day I’ll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.
Benjamin BrittenBenjamin Britten These two are not two, love has made them one. Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery each is no less but more.
Benjamin BrittenBenjamin Britten Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
Benjamin BrittenBenjamin Britten The model of a composer.
Benjamin BrittenBenjamin Britten It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin BrittenBenjamin Britten The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
Benjamin BrittenBenjamin Britten Composing is like driving down a foggy road.
Benjamin BrittenBenjamin Britten I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like.
Benjamin BrittenBenjamin Britten Music does not excite until it is performed.
Benjamin BrittenBenjamin Britten It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.
Benjamin BrittenBenjamin Britten I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.
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