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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 Britten

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.
BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Bricks Driving Fog Mortar
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.
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Bricks Color Fog Mortar
I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.
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Everything Liked Musical Opera
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.
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Inspiring Sleep Writing
These two are not two, love has made them one. Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery each is no less but more.
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Inspiring Love More Myster Two
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.
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Beautiful Life Music Musical
I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.
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Composer Convince Fault Own
The model of a composer.
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Composer Model Music
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.
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Beauty Freedom Loneliness Music Strength
Music does not excite until it is performed.
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Excited Music Perform
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.
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Arrogant Faults Like Music Work

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.

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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.

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