In the next world, I shan't be doing music, with all the st… - Ralph Vaughan Williams

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

Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was a British composer and folksong-collector who, in the early 20th century, played a key part in the forming of a distinctively national style of English classical music.

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

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