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Benjamin Britten Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: english
Birth: November 22, 1913 - December 4, 1976

Topics

Road Color Details Driving You Down

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

John Malkovich

Hate See Fail Involved Film Any

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.

Maureen McCormick

Think Self Strange Always Her Role

Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.

John Updike

Me Duty Fiction Sense Burdened

When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.

Tom Hanks

War Parents Growing Up You Earth Up

A lot of people have trouble putting into words what my music is, and it's because of where I grew up.

Mike Posner

Music Words People Trouble Up Where

I really don't care what I look like as long as it fits with the thing I'm working on.

Michael Welch

Care Long Look Working Like Really

I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up. The fun is not that much different from doing a television show: You're stuck with a certain set of rules, and then, rather than trying to break them, it's just trying to peel away and see what's underneath them. That to me is really fun.

Joss Whedon

Fun Me Growing Up Doing You Rules

Nat was my hero right from the very beginning. My dad brought his music into the house and played it over and over again.

Johnny Mathis

Music Hero Beginning House Right

Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.

Bob Newhart

Change Live Time Past You Anything

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Thomas Merton

Choices Deepest Real Us Must Our

I want people to know that I'm a force to be reckoned with.

Tinashe

People Know Want Force Reckoned

I try not to put my purse on the floor - demons will get into it.

Nina Arianda

Demons Will Try Floor Purse Get