Quotes by Richard Rodney Bennett - Page 1

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.
Richard Rodney Bennett / Composer
Enjoyed
Musical
Quests
Quest
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I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.
Richard Rodney Bennett / Composer
Cards
Nice
Play
Writing
Cook
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People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.
Richard Rodney Bennett / Composer
Firsts
People
Pieces
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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 / Composer
Age
Nineteen
Proud
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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 / Composer
Committees
Composition
Play
Teaching
Want
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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 / Composer
Encouragement
Aptitude
Catastrophe
Games
Quaker
School
Subjects
Good Thing
Schools
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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 / Composer
Strings
Want
Writing
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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 / Composer
Chords
Composer
Tall
Chord
Eventually
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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 / Composer
Rooms
Albeit
Different Parts
Seemed
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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 / Composer
First Time
Firsts
Hearing
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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 / Composer
Encouragement
Composer
Firsts
Pieces
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