Music
Despite his early studies in modernist techniques, Bennett's tastes are catholic. He has written in a wide range of styles, including jazz, which he has particular fondness for. Early on, he found success by writing music for feature films, although he considered this to be subordinate to his concert music.
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“O I shall hear skull skull,
Hear your lame music,
Believe music rejects undertaking,
Limps back.”
—Owen Dodson (b. 1914)
“Not to sink under being man and wife,
But get some color and music out of life?”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)