Top 21 Quotes About Benjamin Britten
#1. 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
#2. One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.
Benjamin Britten
#3. 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
#4. When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.
Claire Denis
#5. I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.
Rene Auberjonois
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. I just keep thinking about putting up good numbers, playing hard and winning games.
Mike Trout
#9. Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice.
Sydney Thompson Dobell
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#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. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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.
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#20. I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.
Garth Greenwell
#21. 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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