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Maurice Ravel has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven,…
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I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the…
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I begin by considering an effect.
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I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.
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Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
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For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I…
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We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art
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I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.
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If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.
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You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
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Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?
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Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!
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George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to.
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