The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more. - Ralph Vaughan Williams

Before going any further may we take it that the object of art is to obtain a partial revelation of that which is beyond human senses and human faculties – of that, in fact, which is spiritual? And that the means which we employ to induce this revelation are those very senses and faculties themselves?

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

I don't know whether I like it, but it's what I meant.