Top 49 Quotes About Britten
#1. When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.
Claire Denis
#2. I've been kind of listening to the composer Britten and his rendition of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The opening track is a choral section where all the weird fairies, who are played by kids in the production, sing. It's a crazy opening melody and chord sequence - really amazing.
Dev Hynes
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I felt I should also contrast Visconti's treatment of the novella - usually damned by Mann fans (who typically respect Britten's more "faithful" adaptation). The Visconti film does many quite wonderful things, although there are good reasons for the condemnation.
Philip Kitcher
#7. I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.
Garth Greenwell
#8. 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
#10. 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
#11. Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened.
Rhonda Britten
#12. Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift you can give another human being: the gift of acceptance.
Rhonda Britten
#13. I want you,
As soon as you realize how bad this is for you,
You'd better disappear from here.
But until that day, I'm taking you.
You're mine!
Britten Thorne
#14. We are afraid of failure, of ridicule, of being rejected. We are afraid we're not good enough.
Rhonda Britten
#15. Forgiveness is not a one-time-only event. It is a process.
Rhonda Britten
#18. Where you begin doesn't matter. Your willingness to start is what counts.
Rhonda Britten
#19. You don't have to earn or deserve love. You are love. Loving is never about how others treat you. It is always about how you are treating yourself.
Rhonda Britten
#20. The first is based in fear, the second in fearlessness.
Rhonda Britten
#21. 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
#22. People who think of themselves as being entirely self-sufficient are, in fact, selfish. They nearly always proclaim their opinions as the only ones that count, their feelings as the only ones that matter, their ideas as the only ones worth thinking.
Samuel Britten
#23. Your body's reaction to fear is the same whether you are faced with a physical threat or an emotional one.
Rhonda Britten
#24. Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.
Rhonda Britten
#25. 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
#26. If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet.
Rhonda Britten
#28. 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
#29. Risk is one of the keys that move you from fear to freedom.
Rhonda Britten
#30. Each moment is a moment of choice and your commitments keep you true to yourself, choice by choice.
Rhonda Britten
#31. One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.
Benjamin Britten
#32. Accepting what others see as your strengths is crucial to your continued growth. Compliments are a gift. They are an opportunity for you and another person to connect in a powerful, positive way. How did you handle the last compliment directed at you? Did you accept it?
Rhonda Britten
#33. Listen to others as if they are telling you the truth, ask questions when you aren't clear, and allow others the room to have different feelings than you. No more assigning hidden motives, prejudging and cutting people off before separating fact from fiction.
Rhonda Britten
#34. Investing and connecting are the key factors in turning any intention into reality.
Rhonda Britten
#36. 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
#37. The words you say to yourself create your self image.
Rhonda Britten
#38. When your commitment is to be loving regardless of the circumstances, there is no room for harsh words. You assert yourself not from a desire to control but from a desire to stand for who you are.
Rhonda Britten
#39. Living in intention through acceptance, responsibility, pro-active choice, and the willingness to be ordinary, will move fear aside and allow intuition to surface. All of those skills teach us to be inner focused and aware of who we are becoming. That is powerful. That changes lives.
Rhonda Britten
#40. Caring what others think about us is normal. The desire to belong is basic to human nature. But in order to feel like you truly belong, you must accept yourself for who you are. This is critical to Fearless Living.
Rhonda Britten
#41. Yet if we are to live fully, we must love as though we've never been hurt, dream as though our hopes have never been dashed, and take steps toward the future as though life has never given us pain.
Rhonda Britten
#42. Be loving and the love in your life will increase.
Rhonda Britten
#43. In order to make any permanent changes, you have to be willing. Willing to see things differently. Willing to experience new ideas. Willing to listen to the people who cheered you on rather than ones who echoed your fears.
Rhonda Britten
#44. Our ability to receive is a necessary component if we desire to own our power, claim our worth and live fearlessly.
Rhonda Britten
#45. When you heed the calling of your heart, you are following your purpose. Having purpose in your life gives you the courage to do the things you are meant to do. When you are purpose driven, you have learned to listen to your intutition and never let no get in your way.
Rhonda Britten
#48. Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have.
Rhonda Britten
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