National Music (1934) p. 129.
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"Musical Autobiography" (1950); cited from Ursula Vaughan Williams RVW (1964) p. 30.
“I don't know whether I like it, but it's what I meant.”
Quoted in Michael Kennedy The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams ([1964] 1992) p. 246, on the authority of Bernard Shore and Sir Adrian Boult.
Said at rehearsals for the premiere of his Symphony No. 4 in 1935.
"Film Music", The R. C. M. Magazine, February 1944.
Letter to Lord Kennet, 1941; cited from Ursula Vaughan Williams RVW (1964) p. 243.
“It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.”
Quoted in Michael Kennedy The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams ([1964] 1992) p. 302. He reportedly said this to Roy Douglas regarding whether his Symphony No.6 was meant to be programmatic.
“Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.”
"Film Music", The R. C. M. Magazine, February 1944.
"The Letter and the Spirit", in the journal Music and Letters, vol. 1 (1920) p. 88.
Said to Sylvia Townsend Warner two weeks before his death; published in William Maxwell (ed.) The Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1982) p. 168.
"Who Wants the English Composer?" (1912); cited from Ursula Vaughan Williams RVW (1964) pp. 101-2.
“The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.”
From an article in The Vocalist magazine, 1902; cited from Ursula Vaughan Williams RVW (1964) p. 400.
