When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez. — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time. — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
The different parts of my career seemed to take part in different rooms, albeit in the same house. It was just the way things… — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement… — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for… — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and… — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a composer. — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on. — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of… — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece. — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was… — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
