Vaughan Williams Famous Quotes & Sayings
37 Vaughan Williams Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.— Ralph Vaughan Williams
I don't know whether I like it, but it's what I meant.— Vaughan Williams
Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.— Aaron Copland
I do not Support : The Holocaust.— Petra Hermans
Not Even : "The Second Holocaust."
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
The Religion Of The Blue Circle
November 3, 2016
I'm not going to tell [Vladimir] Putin what to do. Why should I tell Putin what to do?— Donald Trump
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Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.— 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
The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.— Bill Vaughan
It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.— Ralph Vaughan Williams
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.— Ralph Vaughan Williams
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
The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. You have to love Anita Blake ... ...— Laurell K. Hamilton
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.— Ralph Vaughan Williams
The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most ofthemlabour the greater part oftheir time for mere subsistence; and the scanty portion of freedomwhich remains to themso troubles themthat they use every exertion to get rid ofit.— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
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.— Ralph Vaughan Williams
The same basic tools we've used for thousands of years to connect with people, to draw them in and to hold their attention will always work, even if we're telling our stories 140 characters at a time.— Shawn Amos
A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.— Ralph Vaughan Williams
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
Don't write what you know. Write what you love. That's what will keep you writing.— Chris Humphreys
Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?— Ralph Vaughan Williams
Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.— Ralph Vaughan Williams
No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.— Brian K. Vaughan
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.— Ralph Vaughan Williams
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.— Ralph Vaughan Williams
You won't enjoy it," sighed Crowley. "It's been in the car for more than a fortnight." A heavy bass beat began to thump through the Bentley as they sped past Heathrow. Aziraphale's brow furrowed. "I don't recognize this," he said. "What is it?" "It's Tchaikovsky's 'Another One Bites the Dust'," said Crowley, closing his eyes as they went through Slough. To while away the time as they crossed the sleeping Chilterns, they also listened to William Byrd's "We Are the Champions" and Beethoven's "I Want To Break Free." Neither were as good as Vaughan Williams's "Fat-Bottomed Girls.— Terry Pratchett
There's always a door you don't get in. I'm a star in my own right for certain things. I'll own that. During Oscar weekend I did fabulous things. But there's still one inner sanctum I'm not allowed in. That's the one I'm fixated on.— Kevin Sessums
Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.— Ralph Vaughan Williams
I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.— Brigitte Bardot
The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.— Peter Ackroyd
No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.— Ralph Vaughan Williams
Do the thing you love to do. Hank Williams died at the ripe old age of twentynine. Stevie Ray Vaughan at thirty-five. Jesus at thirtythree. Don't think you're special and the Lord's gonna bless you with time.— Jill S. Alexander
There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.— Ralph Vaughan Williams
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.— Ralph Vaughan Williams
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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.— Ralph Vaughan Williams
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.— Ralph Vaughan Williams
To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough ...— Ralph Vaughan Williams
