"People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece."

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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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“One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So far the estimate is 8.3% of our genome is virus, but it actually could be a lot higher.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.”
“The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The subconscious mind will translate into reality a thought driven by fear, just as readily as it will translate into reality a thought driven by courage or faith.”
“I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.”
“Visualize what you want to do before you do it. Visualization is so powerful that when you know what you want, you will get it.”
“That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.”
“When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.”
“My past is everything I failed to be.”

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