Monday's Quote

I'm going to do something different with the quotes this week, namely have them all revolve around a particular theme. The theme I've chosen (which probably won't come as a surprise given some of the other stuff I post) is music. Kicking us off is this comment from the noted British composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976):

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be
so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness
of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty
of disappointment and never-satisfied love.
The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting
beauty of monotony."