Benjamin Britten quotes
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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 BrittenSource : Benjamin Britten (2011). “Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten”, Faber & Faber
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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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“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 BrittenSource : "The Classical Music Experience: Discover the Music of the World's Greatest Composers". Book by Julius H. Jacobson (p.341), 2008.
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“I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.”
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“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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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.”
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“Music does not excite until it is performed.”
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“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 BrittenSource : Benjamin Britten, Paul Francis Kildea (2003). “On Music”, p.103, Oxford University Press, USA
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“One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.”
-- Benjamin Britten
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