My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

- Edward Elgar

An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody wil…

- Edward Elgar

The Spirit of God is not something less than God, - it is God.

- Edward Elgar

I always said God was against art and I still believe it.

- Edward Elgar

I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward - I ask for no reward…

- Edward Elgar

People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and…

- Edward Elgar

The music is in the air. Take as much as you want.

- Edward Elgar

It is curious to be treated by the old-fashioned people as a criminal because my thoughts and ways are beyond them.

- Edward Elgar

English music is white - it evades everything.

- Edward Elgar