"It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music."
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Quoted in Michael Kennedy The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams ([1964] 1992) p. 302. He reportedly said this to Roy Douglas regarding whether his Symphony No.6 was meant to be programmatic.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872 β 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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