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.
A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation. - Ralph Vaughan Williams
A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything… - Ralph Vaughan Williams
I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything…
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
The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.
Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there. - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.
The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more. - Ralph Vaughan Williams
The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music. - Ralph Vaughan Williams
I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.
It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right. - Ralph Vaughan Williams
It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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
But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass. - Ralph Vaughan Williams
There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.
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