"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much a…"

"To my friends pictured within."

"I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and ha…"

"People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth…"

"Play it like something you hear down by the river."

"His range is so Handelian that he can give the people a universal melody or march with as sure a hand as he can give …"

"The aggressive Edwardian prosperity that lends so comfortable a background to Elgar's finales is now as strange to us…"

"Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enoug…"

"As a composer, he enriched violin music by his numerous concertos and sonatas, and by a few dainty songs. However, it…"

"Dowghter, in this I can thinke no other But that it is true thys proverbe olde, Hastye love is soone hot and soone co…"