"I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers."

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Source : Benjamin Britten, Paul Francis Kildea (2003). “On Music”, p.103, Oxford University Press, USA

Benjamin Britten

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“How much is enough? How much does anyone require? Can I be both kind and tough? Can I put faith before desire? Right now, for all time, I vow to try . . . I volunteer to be simple, I volunteer to love, Every living thing like a mountain stream that flows out o'er the land. I volunteer for the journey from here to heaven's gate. I will do my part I place my heart in Your gracious hands . . . How then shall we live? Let us live lightly as a feather. How much shall we give? Let us give everything, together One heart, one mind, all humankind... I volunteer.”
“I like songs that go to different places and then come back.”
“The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The charity that begins at home cannot rest there but draws one inexorably over the threshold and off the porch and down the street and so out and out and out and out into the world which becomes the home wherein charity begins until it becomes possible, in theory at least, to love the whole of creation with the same patience, affection, and amusement one first practiced, in between the pouts and tantrums, with parents, siblings, spouse, and children.”
“The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.”
“Back in the early 1960s, when I was eight or nine. Some neighborhood boys and I saw a disc-shaped, windowless object that hovered, silent, then simply vanished. My parents said, "That's very nice" and ignored it, but I knew what I'd seen, and it was life-changing.”

Source : "UFOs: What the Government Really Knows" by Jean-Noel Bassior, November 2005.
“I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.”
“Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group context, with true democracy in action.”

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