It is better to be a bad composer writing for society than to be a bad composer writing against it. At least your work can be of some use.


interview, New York Times, 1969, quoted in Humphrey Carpenter Benjamin Britten (1992)


It is better to be a bad composer writing for society than to be a bad composer writing against it. At least your work can be of some use.

It is better to be a bad composer writing for society than to be a bad composer writing against it. At least your work can be of some use.

It is better to be a bad composer writing for society than to be a bad composer writing against it. At least your work can be of some use.

It is better to be a bad composer writing for society than to be a bad composer writing against it. At least your work can be of some use.