"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."

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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

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“What my experience has taught me is that regardless of how complicated the problems might appear, it is possible to work through them and find solutions that are mutually satisfactory to every stakeholder in the problem... most of our problems on this earth are created by us and therefore we have the capacity and the obligation to unmake them.”
“I pinch myself every night when I hear the overture starting. I'm so overwhelmed by the whole process, and humbled and giddy all at the same time because I can't believe it's me that gets to sing these songs every night.”
“As a kid growing up and seeing so much strife taking place in society, and particularly on Blacks and people of color, I had an opportunity as a young man to witness the change that was taking place in Harlem, the exodus of white folks leaving Harlem, which I thought was a very cohesive situation. But they felt that they needed to leave.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.”
“Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.”

Source : "Eve Best: 'Webster is like learning to eat with a chainsaw'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.
“Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.”

Source : "Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is a Terrible Defense of Minor Privacy Violations" by Natalie Shoemaker, bigthink.com.
“There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.”
“It's time for us all to step up. We've been extremely successful, but to be honest it's a reality check for everybody.”

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