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.

Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes

It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.