"I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time."

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Source : "A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

Richard Rodney Bennett

#Nice Quotes #Writing Quotes #Play Quotes

“Who you are is always right.”
“As it's your 50th birthday The very best of cheers to you Truthfully, I'm just being selfish Coz now I am so cheerful, too Happy, Cheerful Birthday”
“What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the first place should offer us a new perception..bringing into being a new experience Verse is more valuable than prose for its rhythms are faster and more highly organised and lead to greater compexity.”
“Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.”
“When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.”
“I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.”
“You've got to capture an audience. You don't go out there and just sing, or just play. If you can't capture an audience, you might as well not be out there.”
“Morphological information has provided the greatest single source of data in the formulation and development of the theory of evolution and that even now, when the preponderance of work is experimental, the basis for interpretation in many areas of study remains the form and relationships of structures.”

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