All Maurice Ravel Quotes
- My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by… Cell
- I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the… All
- I begin by considering an effect. Begin
- I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces. Drop
- Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second. Emotional
- 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 personally… Admiration
- We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art Always Remember
- I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played. Ask
- If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music. Been
- You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. Composing
- Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin? First Rate
- Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess! Dead
- To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel. Bad
- Tell me that not everything I wrote was bad. Bad
- The only love affair I have ever had was with music. Affair