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Benjamin Britten Quotes
Page 1 of 1Benjamin Britten
November 22, 1913 - December 4, 1976
Nationality: English
Category: Composer
Subcategory: English Composer
|  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, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house. | | 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. 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. |
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