It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music. — Ralph Vaughan Williams
The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. — Ralph Vaughan Williams
Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall? — 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
Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound. — Ralph Vaughan Williams
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation. — 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
But in the next world I shan’t be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. — Ralph Vaughan Williams