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

  Nice, Writing, Play

  "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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• 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

  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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• 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

  Encouragement, School, Games

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