Benjamin Britten Quotes

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

One day I would like to have my own art show.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

When I was younger, I always wanted to be either a pianist or a classical singer, and when I discovered songwriting, it was like a new portal had been opened.

I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.

Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.

I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.

My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

I started writing songs at age 15.

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

Sunday is the one day I keep reminding myself that I should lay around and take it easy, but because I am O.C.D. and an extreme multitasker, I find it hard to get lazy. I love Sundays for painting because it's quieter; the gallery is closed, and there are no interruptions.