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title: "2 Write Piece Quotes By Ralph Vaughan Williams"
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> [I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-vaughan-williams/i-suppose-it-never-occurs-to-these-people-that-a-man-might-just-want/)

[Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-vaughan-williams/)

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> [It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-vaughan-williams/it-never-seems-to-occur-to-people-that-a-man-might-just-want-to-write/)

[Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-vaughan-williams/)

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## More by Ralph Vaughan Williams

> [A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-vaughan-williams/a-supreme-composer-can-only-come-out-of-a-musical-nation/)

[Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-vaughan-williams/)

> [I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-vaughan-williams/i-suppose-it-never-occurs-to-these-people-that-a-man-might-just-want/)

[Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-vaughan-williams/)

> [The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-vaughan-williams/the-great-men-of-music-close-periods-they-do-not-inaugurate-them-the/)

[Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-vaughan-williams/)

> [Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-vaughan-williams/wagner-used-to-read-the-libretti-of-his-operas-to-his-friends-i-am/)

[Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-vaughan-williams/two-years-of-close-association-with-some-of-the-best-as-well-as-some/)

[Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-vaughan-williams/but-in-the-next-world-i-shan-t-be-doing-music-with-all-the-striving/)

[Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-vaughan-williams/)

> [Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-vaughan-williams/have-we-not-all-about-us-forms-of-a-musical-expression-which-we-can/)

[Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-vaughan-williams/)

> [The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-vaughan-williams/the-audience-is-requested-not-to-refrain-from-talking-during-the/)

[Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-vaughan-williams/)

> [It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-vaughan-williams/it-looks-wrong-and-it-sounds-wrong-but-it-s-right/)

[Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-vaughan-williams/)

> [The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-vaughan-williams/the-art-of-music-above-all-the-other-arts-is-the-expression-of-the/)

[Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-vaughan-williams/)

> [Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-vaughan-williams/music-is-the-reaching-out-towards-the-utmost-realities-by-means-of/)

[Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-vaughan-williams/the-business-of-finding-a-nation-s-soul-is-a-long-and-slow-one-at-the/)

[Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-vaughan-williams/there-is-a-feeling-of-recognition-as-of-meeting-an-old-friend-which/)

[Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-vaughan-williams/)

> [No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-vaughan-williams/no-it-s-a-bb-it-looks-wrong-and-it-sounds-wrong-but-it-s-right/)

[Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-vaughan-williams/)

> [Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-vaughan-williams/beethoven-was-ahead-of-the-times-bach-behind-them/)

[Ralph Vaughan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-vaughan-williams/)

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