"No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and……" — Ralph Vaughan Williams

"No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right."

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

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13 Quotes by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being…
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.
Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.
Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths,…
I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it…
I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister…
It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.
I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

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More Looks Wrong Quotes

This quote is filed under Looks Wrong Quotes, one of 5 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me. — Anna Freud
It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right. — Ralph Vaughan Williams
I like to take on the thing I don't like at the moment. I like to find something that looks… — Marc Jacobs
Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. — Chuck Palahniuk

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