You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.

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• Benjamin Britten:

  The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is

• Benjamin Britten:

  It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain:

• Benjamin Britten:

  These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but m

• Doris Duke:

  The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many.

• Doris Duke:

  In my Indian bedroom, the carved, cut-out marble jalis, or screens, which were formerly used by Ind

• Doris Duke:

  After I've gone out with a man a few times, he starts to tell me how much he loves me. But how can

• Doris Duke:

  I've discovered, I guess, that it's fun to work.

• Hoagy Carmichael:

  I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late

• Hoagy Carmichael:

  I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.

• Hoagy Carmichael:

  In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.