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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

History teaches us things about ourselves, but you have to listen for the lessons. You have to be really still to hear the whispers. — Amber Kizer

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

A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example. — Peter Drucker

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