Errollyn Wallen Quotes

United Kingdom, Composer
1958

Errollyn Wallen is a Belize-born British composer. She was the first black woman to have a work performed at The Proms this however was not televised although there is a radio version.

There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.

Errollyn Wallen
- Real
- Want
- Hardship
The tighter a deadline is, the more I'm inclined to be perverse and rebellious - I'll start thinking about another, different project, until it becomes the most fantastic thing which I must start immediately.

Errollyn Wallen

When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the loneliness and all that. Those moments of really feeling in the flow are fleeting.

Errollyn Wallen
In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions.

Errollyn Wallen
- Work
- Trust
- Lifetime
I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.

Errollyn Wallen
- Freedom
- Ideas
- Knowing
Music begins and ends in the air - it's got to be shared.

Errollyn Wallen
- Music
- Air
- Begins