5 Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes on Music

Ralph Vaughan Williams quotes on music

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

4. The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

7. The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

8. The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is 'wrong' and arises from insular ignorance.

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