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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

Topics: Beautiful Beauty Cruel Disappointment Everlasting Freedom Know Loneliness Love Monotony Music Nature Pain Should Strength You

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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

Topics: Bricks Color Composing Details Down Driving Foggy House Like More Notes Road See Shape Slowly Toward Windows You

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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

Topics: All Night Composer Having Idea Night Nighttime Nonsense Old Sitting Sleeping Suddenly Terrific Up Write

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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.

~Benjamin Britten

Topics: Each Less Love Made More Mystery Sum Them Two

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Composer

Born: November 22nd, 1913

Died: December 4th, 1976

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