Edward Elgar Quotes

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This is what I hear all day—the trees are singing my music—or have I sung theirs?

Edward Elgar
My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require.

Edward Elgar
People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.

Edward Elgar
I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward – I ask for no reward – only to live & to hear my work.

Edward Elgar
The enigma I will not explain – its "dark saying" must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the apparent connection between the variations and the theme is often of the slightest texture.

Edward Elgar
Play it like something you hear down by the river.

Edward Elgar
An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at all˘that is the want of taste˘that is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything.

Edward Elgar