I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.
Ralph Vaughan WilliamsHave 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 WilliamsTo the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.
Ralph Vaughan WilliamsBut in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
Ralph Vaughan Williams