Famous quotes containing the words paul and/or britten:
“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”
—Jean Paul Richter (1763–1825)
“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness & of pain: of strength & freedom. The beauty of disappointment & never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, & everlasting beauty of monotony.”
—Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)