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Ralph Vaughan Williams on Music

1872–1958 England

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4 quotes

It never seems to occur to 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.

National Music (1934)

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

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

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ralph Vaughan Williams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.