Edward Elgar Quotes

• 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 as you require.

  Edward Elgar

  Music, Art, Air

  Quoted in Robert J. Buckley, Sir Edward Elgar (1905)

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• The music is in the air. Take as much as you want.

  Edward Elgar

  Air, Musical, Want

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• It is curious to be treated by the old-fashioned people as a criminal because my thoughts and ways are beyond them.

  Edward Elgar

  People, Criminals, Way

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• An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at all˘that is the want of taste˘that is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything.

  Edward Elgar

  White, Soul, Mind

  Edward Elgar, Percy Marshall Young (1968). “A future for English music, and other lectures”

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• I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward - I ask for no reward - only to live & to hear my work.

  Edward Elgar

  Art, Believe, Blessed

  Letter to A. J. Jaeger, October 9, 1900.

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• People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.

  Edward Elgar

  Art, Strong, People

  Letter to Canon Gorton, organizer of the Morecambe Music Festival, published in "The Musical Times", July 1903.

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• The Spirit of God is not something less than God, - it is God.

  Edward Elgar

  Spirit, Spirit Of God

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• English music is white - it evades everything.

  Edward Elgar

  White, Music Is, English Music

  Edward Elgar, Percy Marshall Young (1968). “A future for English music, and other lectures”

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• I always said God was against art and I still believe it.

  Edward Elgar

  Inspiring, Art, Believe

  Letter to A. J. Jaeger, October 9, 1900.

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