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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 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 BRITTEN

Inspiring Love More Myster Two
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 BRITTEN

Beauty Freedom Loneliness Music Strength
Music does not excite until it is performed.
BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Excited Music Perform
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
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

Inspiring Sleep Writing
I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.
BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Composer Convince Fault Own
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.
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Beautiful Life Music Musical
Composing is like driving down a foggy road.
BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Bricks Driving Fog Mortar
I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.
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Everything Liked Musical Opera
The model of a composer.
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Composer Model Music
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 BRITTEN

Arrogant Faults Like Music Work

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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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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