Music does not exist until it is performed.
More Quotes from 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
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
Francis Poulenc commenting on the music of Benjamin Britten The model of a composer.
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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.
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Music has the beauty of disappointment never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten
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