Benjamin Britten on inspiring
Benjamin Britten12 quotes“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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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 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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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Some women will have you look at life differently.
Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
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A. L. KennedyA. L. Kennedy Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don’t think it’s going to be easy. It’s hard!
AaliyahAaliyah It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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