Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Edward Elgar

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Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924.

British - Composer | June 2, 1857 - February 23, 1934

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

Edward Elgar

English music is white - it evades everything.

Edward Elgar

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

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

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

Edward Elgar

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

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

Edward Elgar

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 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

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Edward Elgar

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