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Famous Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes
“Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?”
“To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.”
“Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.”
“A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.”
“I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.”
“The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.”
“The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.”
“There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.”
“Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.”