Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.

Ralph Vaughan Williams's Popular Quotes

A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.

- Ralph Vaughan Williams

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.

- 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

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

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

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

- 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

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

- Ralph Vaughan Williams