You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music. — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found… — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin? — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and… — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel. — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess! — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always… — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
