“And, the conversation turning to what one [would] choose to do given another life, he said in the manner of a man who knows what he’s talking about, I shan’t be doing music. I shall be being it.”
Ralph Vaughan Williams, in conversation with Sylvia Townsend Warner, 1958 (quoted in The Element of Lavishness: Letters of William Maxwell and Sylvia Townsend Warner, 1938-1978)