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“The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.”
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Source : Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA
#Art Quotes
#Expression Quotes
#Soul Quotes
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“It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.”
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
#Music Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered.”
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Source : Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA
#Teacher Quotes
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“The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is "wrong" and arises from insular ignorance.”
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Source : "R.V.W.: A Biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams". Book by Ursula Vaughan Williams, p. 243, letter to Lord Kennet (1941), 1964.
#Attitude Quotes
#Believe Quotes
#Ignorance Quotes
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“The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.”
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Source : Note in the score to "The Poisoned Kiss" by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1936.
#Talking Quotes
#Opera Quotes
#Tunes Quotes
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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.”
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Source : Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA
#Long Quotes
#Soul Quotes
#Generations Quotes
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“It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.”
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
#Sound Quotes
#Looks Quotes
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“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 with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.”
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
#Country Quotes
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#Thinking Quotes
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“I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.”
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
#Dog Quotes
#Trying Quotes
#Study Quotes
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“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.”
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Source : Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA
#Music Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Path Quotes
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“Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.”
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
#Behinds Quotes
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“Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.”
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
#Mean Quotes
#Reality Quotes
#Sound Quotes
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“There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.”
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
#Atheist Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Reason Quotes
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“The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.”
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Source : Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst (1959). “Heirs and rebels: letters written to each other and occasional writings on music”
#Unsaid Quotes
#Duty Quotes
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“But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.”
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
#Disappointment Quotes
#Next Quotes
#World Quotes
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“There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first sight of New York City - the intuition that I had been there already.”
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Source : "R.V.W.: A Biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams". Book by Ursula Vaughan Williams, p. 30, "Musical Autobiography" (1950), 1964.
#New York Quotes
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#Sight Quotes
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