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Benjamin Britten12 quotes“Music does not excite until it is performed.”
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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 I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.
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 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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The fans out in New Zealand are amazing. They’re genuinely excited and appreciative that you’re playing their country.
Beau BokanBeau Bokan That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
Sinclair LewisSinclair Lewis I wasn’t too excited about school, I’m not going to lie.
Ryan GarciaRyan Garcia I think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
Adrian TomineAdrian Tomine For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.
Adrian TomineAdrian Tomine And when you perform and create this story, they’re chuffed – they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.
Adrian GrenierAdrian Grenier Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
Adam McKayAdam McKay My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.
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