I don't know whether I like it, but it's what I meant. - Ralph Vaughan Williams

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

Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.

Art for art's sake has never flourished in England. We are often called inartistic because our art is unconscious. Our drama and poetry, like our laws and our constitution, have evolved by accident while we thought we were doing something else, and so it will be with music. The composer must not shut himself up and think about art, he must live with his fellows and make his art an expression of the whole life of the community – if we seek for art we shall not find it.