I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But … - Richard Rodney Bennett

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A lot of people are scared. It's the way you're raised. The way you've been told your whole life, that you've got to do this and that. Get a job, go to school. So, a lot of people are scared to just do what they really want. They're worried about what people will think and stuff like that. It's just fear.

Richard Rodney Bennett

I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.

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I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a composer.

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When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

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Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her. . . she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.

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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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Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

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