Frases de Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM ou somente Vaughan Williams, como é conhecido popularmente, foi um compositor inglês, influenciador, de sinfonias, música de câmara, ópera, música coral e trilhas para filmes. Ele foi também um importante colecionador de música folk e canção. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. Outubro 1872 – 26. Agosto 1958
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Frases em inglês

“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.

“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.

“In the next world, I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.”

Said to Sylvia Townsend Warner two weeks before his death; published in William Maxwell (ed.) The Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1982) p. 168.

“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.