Edward Elgar
Quotations

"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."

 

"I like to look on the composer's vocation as the old troubadours or bards did. In those days it was no disgrace to a man to be turned on to step in front of an army and inspire the people with a song."