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Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes: "Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound."

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.



Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes: "But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it."

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 Quotes: "I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog."

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 Quotes: "There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass."

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.




Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes: "The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more."

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



Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes: "I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music."

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



Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes: "Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there."

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.




Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes: "To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough."

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.



Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes: "It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right."

It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.



Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes: "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."

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

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 Quotes: "Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them."

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.




Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes: "Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?."

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.



Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes: "A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation."

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



Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes: "Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?"

Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?



Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes: "Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues."

Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.