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

“Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.”

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

“I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.”