Richard Rodney Bennett Quotes

• I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a composer.

  Richard Rodney Bennett

  Age, Nineteen, Proud

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• I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.

  Richard Rodney Bennett

  Agradable, Escribir, Jugar

  "A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

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• People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

  Richard Rodney Bennett

  People, Pieces, Firsts

  "A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

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• When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

  Richard Rodney Bennett

  Hearing, Firsts, First Time

  "A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

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• 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

  Teaching, Play, Want

  "A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

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• Me di cuenta muy pronto de que nunca iba a ganarme la vida escribiendo cuartetos de cuerda. Pero yo quería escribir música y no quería tener que hacer otra cosa.

  Richard Rodney Bennett

  Writing, Want, Strings

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• Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.

  Richard Rodney Bennett

  Encouragement, Pieces, Firsts

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• Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

  Richard Rodney Bennett

  Musical, Quests, Enjoyed

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

  Richard Rodney Bennett

  Chords, Composer, Tall

  "A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

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• Yo era una catástrofe en Ciencias y Juegos, pero lo bueno de los colegios cuáqueros es que te animan en aquellas asignaturas para las que demuestras aptitudes.

  Richard Rodney Bennett

  Encouragement, School, Games

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