Benjamin Britten Quotes
- 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…
- 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.
- 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,…
- I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.
- These two are not two, love has made them one. Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery each is no less but more.
- It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.
- The model of a composer.
- Music does not excite until it is performed.
- 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…