Ralph Vaughan Williams Quote

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.


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

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

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

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