Quotes About Benjamin Britten

#1. When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.

Claire Denis

#2. Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as composers, conductors and pianists.

Terry Teachout

#3. My mother sent me to dance and drama classes when I was young, and then I got a stage role in 'Set To Partners' when I was 12, followed by Benjamin Britten's 'Let's Make An Opera.'

Shirley Eaton

#4. I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.

Jack Bruce

#5. I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.

Garth Greenwell

#6. My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French.

James Horner

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Music does not excite until it is performed.

Benjamin Britten

#11. The model of a composer.

Benjamin Britten

#12. I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

Benjamin Britten

#13. 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

#14. Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

David Hockney

#15. Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice.

Sydney Thompson Dobell

#16. I just keep thinking about putting up good numbers, playing hard and winning games.

Mike Trout

#17. 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

#18. About us it was growing darker and darker, and I had to look hard to see her face, which I meant always to carry with me; the closest, realest face, under all the shadows of women's faces, at the very bottom of my memory. "I'll

Willa Cather

#19. I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.

Rene Auberjonois

#20. One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.

Benjamin Britten

#21. Everything about Enzo whispers of danger, of murder in the name of righteousness. I'm desperate to pull away. I ache for more. I tremble uncontrollably, caught in the middle.

Marie Lu