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Famous Quotes By Richard Rodney Bennett

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I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else. — Richard Rodney Bennett

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I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude. — Richard Rodney Bennett

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People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece. — Richard Rodney Bennett

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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

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Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed. — Richard Rodney Bennett

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I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time. — Richard Rodney Bennett

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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

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The different parts of my career seemed to take part in different rooms, albeit in the same house. It was just the way things were and I didn't actually think much about it at the time. — Richard Rodney Bennett

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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

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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

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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