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The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams National Music (1934)

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Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.

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.

I don't know whether I like it, but it's what I meant.

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