Elgar's Quotes

#1. Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.

Thomas Beecham

#2. There was a strange happening during a performance of Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' at a concert hall in Bermuda tonight, when the man playing the triangle disappeared.

Ronnie Barker

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

Edward Elgar

#4. English music is white - it evades everything.

Edward Elgar

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

Edward Elgar

#6. Caratacus suffered the double indignity of being taken to Rome in chains and having an opera written about him by Elgar.

Ben Aaronovitch

#7. In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli. Made a musical notation of their snores. Elgar is to be played by a bass tuba, Ayrs a bassoon.

David Mitchell

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

Edward Elgar

#9. Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be Italian and not stodgy enough to be German. We arrive at his Englishry by pure elimination.

Anthony Burgess

#10. I went to give this back to the - the lady. She wasn't there, but you left Elgar."

I snatched the pieces from Jurij's hands. "You went back to the shack? What were you going to say? 'Sorry we were spying on you pretending you were a monster, thanks for the dirty old rag?

Amy McNulty

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

Edward Elgar

#12. You're somethin' else, Hel. Know that? Dodged the sea toad, got rescued off that damned comet, bisected ol' Bron Elgar like a bagel out there on Cravat ... How the hell you get away from those damn fish down in the Glory Hole? Man, you got more lives than a New York alleycat.

Julian May

#13. 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

#14. Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.

Bliss Carman

#15. My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.

Jasmine Guinness

#16. The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station.
(on Elgar)

Thomas Beecham

#17. But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

Frank Langella

#18. In the adversarial system, it's more important to follow legal procedure than to speak the truth.

Jon Krakauer

#19. A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

William Hazlitt