Quotes by Benjamin Britten

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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.

  Source: Letters from a Life Volume 3

  ― Benjamin Britten
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Subjects in these quotes:

• never-satisfied
• everlasting
• beautiful
• nighttime
• monotony
• composer

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