Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.
Ralph Vaughan WilliamsWagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.
Ralph Vaughan WilliamsTo the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.
Ralph Vaughan WilliamsTwo 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.
Ralph Vaughan Williams