Neville Cardus Quotes

1889–1975 England

Sir Neville Cardus (2 April 1889 – 28 February 1975) was a celebrated British journalist. He was a music and cricket writer for the Manchester Guardian.

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It is the only one in existence that might conceivably have been composed by God.

For the game is everlasting only insofar as we keep returning to it for delights put into it by countless boys of all ages.

Cricket (1930)

If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.

Manchester Guardian (1939)

Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.

Good Days (1934)

Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.

Good Days (1934)

Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.

Manchester Guardian (1958)

Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blessed.

Of Rachmaninoff's playing; Manchester Guardian (1939)

A great composition to me is ... an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Neville Cardus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.