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But in the next world I shan't...

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

I have always found it difficu...

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

The great men of music close p...

The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

Two years of close association...

Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

To the unmusical hearer a note...

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough...

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

Why should we not enter into o...

Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

Beethoven was ahead of the tim...

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

Music is the reaching out towa...

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

There is no reason why an athe...

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

The duty of the words is to sa...

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

The art of music above all the...

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

It never seems to occur to peo...

It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

A supreme composer can only co...

A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

Wagner used to read the libret...

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

It looks wrong, and it sounds ...

It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

I think there is no work of ar...

I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than 'Die Meister Singer' of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

There [is] a feeling of recogn...

There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first sight of New York City - the intuition that I had been there already.

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

Film composing is a splendid d...

Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered.

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

The attitude of foreign to Eng...

The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is 'wrong' and arises from insular ignorance.

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

The audience is requested not ...

The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

Ralph Vaughan Williams 21 quotes

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