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Richard Rodney Bennett Quotes

I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.

Richard Rodney Bennett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: british
Birth: March 29, 1936

Topics

Music Play Want Playing Composition

I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and, you know, when it was composed and who was the poet and all of that and whether Strauss or Wagner or French Belioz, Duparc or Debussy or whatever.

Singing Song Speak You Know Poet

It's in my own interest - it's in everybody's interest - to have streets that are safe, children that are educated, and drug use that's diminished, crimes that are not affecting us.

Children My Own Educated Streets Own

I love magic. Like, 'pull a scarf out of your fake thumb' magic. I have a legit bag of 'Magic Stuff' in my garage.

Love Fake Bag Magic Scarf Out

I told my mom I went gold, and she didn't know what that meant, and I was immediately humbled.

Mom Gold Know She Humbled Meant

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

American Dream Growing Up American

If I get the walk of a character, that helps me find them. So I'm constantly looking at airports and train stations, registering walks.

Character Walk Me Looking Find Get

I'm generally a very happy guy because I'm doing what I want. I'm willing to tell you that there are people who are much better than I am in writing. I don't have to be the fastest gun in the West.

Stephen J. Cannell

I Am Happy People Writing Better

I have not grown up on movies. I didn't watch much films in my childhood, but I was fond of animation films.

Childhood Movies Animation Up Watch

After Independence, there were periods of very high taxation. So you didn't create wealth, how will you distribute it? When was the first time capital gains tax was introduced? It was 1992 March. Till then, everything was taxed one way.

Time Independence You Wealth Create

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Freedom Justice Fun Laughter You

There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity.

Music Great Service Charity Moments

Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't.

Talent People Feel Seriously Never

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