I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going … - Richard Rodney Bennett

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because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day.

Richard Rodney Bennett

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

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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 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 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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