Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes
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A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
In fact, we often prefer predictable, obvious suffering to suffering that may or may not happen at any given time. And
— Kelly G. Wilson
It's like you work with people, and based on the size of the budget, you sometimes can't pay them what they deserve.
— Kevin Heffernan
The most interesting ideas definitely come at night.
— Richard Hawley
No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.
— Aaron Copland
Being a hero of my own life -- is that too much to ask?
— Diana Bletter
We have our own brains.
— Pervez Musharraf
The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.
— Colleen Hoover
It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Enthusiasm ... the sustaining power of all great action.
— Samuel Smiles
You just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility.
— Jonah Hill
To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough ...
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
For someone who doesn't have the key, the door becomes a wall; for someone who has the key, there is no door!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
I wouldn't say being in a film with The Rock was 'motivating.' 'Terrifying' would be a more accurate description.
— Luke Evans
