Benjamin Britten famous quotes

03-24-2025

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

#Strength #Music #Beauty
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 #Writing #Sleep
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 Britten

#Fog #Color #House
I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.
-- Benjamin Britten

#Opera
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

#Love #Two #Mystery
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.
-- Benjamin Britten

#Beautiful #Should
The model of a composer.
-- Benjamin Britten

#Music #Composer #Models
Music does not excite until it is performed.
-- Benjamin Britten

#Doe
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, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.
-- Benjamin Britten

#Music #Arrogant #Faults
One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.
-- Benjamin Britten

#One Day #Trying #Relax

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