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 were and I didn't actually think much about it at the time. — 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
