In the next world, I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The composer imagines an afterlife where he embodies presence rather than straining through creative struggles.
- In plain terms
- In heaven I want to just be instead of working hard on music.
- What can you take from it?
- Being is sometimes better than striving.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What do you want to be in the future?
- Is rest a form of creation?
Another view
Striving often leads to growth in this life.
More from Ralph Vaughan Williams
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 wh…
Permalink to quote #11 Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.
Permalink to quote #10 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 whos…
Permalink to quote #9
Related quotes
The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the…
Louis ArmstrongLouis Armstrong quote #1 Life is a four-letter word
Lenny BruceLenny Bruce quote #1 I believe that any 'awareness' of life is 'spiritual' since awareness can only be a quality of the spirit not of the material world or of matter and machines. …
Chick CoreaChick Corea quote #1