Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Benjamin Britten

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English composer Benjamin Britten.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945), the War Requiem (1962) and the orchestral showpiece The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1945).

English - Composer | November 22, 1913 - December 4, 1976

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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

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

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

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

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

One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.

Benjamin Britten

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

Benjamin Britten

Music does not excite until it is performed.

Benjamin Britten

The model of a composer.

Benjamin Britten

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

Benjamin Britten

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

Benjamin Britten

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

Benjamin Britten