Vaughan Williams Quotes
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Vaughan Williams Quotes & Sayings
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A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
Life is the mode of action of proteins.
— Friedrich Engels
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
Your love, your facial expression, your spirit and your words to the wise is my fervency: special for my mom and dad
— S. Ikom Afriani
My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.
— Clara Mamet
What are you some kind of addict? Is this where you come to ... — Peter Greenaway
There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
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
The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
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
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
I don't know whether I like it, but it's what I meant.
— Vaughan Williams
A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.
— Jaron Lanier
To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.
— Josh Billings
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
