Asks Quote by Maurice Ravel Download Open image “I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.” — Maurice Ravel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ask Music Asks Funny Inspirational Interpreted Played Love Music Music Interpreted Played Success
I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music. — Kelly Jones Copy Share Image
Music is a universal language. You don't have to worry about what is being conveyed. You don't have to try to figure out what… — Avery Sunshine Copy Share Image
Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something. — Helene Grimaud Copy Share Image
When I write the songs, I don't dictate how people should interpret them. — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
I always try to leave songs open for people to interpret in their own ways. — Ryan Bingham Copy Share Image
We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it. — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to. — Leona Lewis 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
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
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I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes. — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time. — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
Success will come when the societal attitude changes and not a single woman in America asks herself the question 'What did I do?'. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate. — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
For someone to ask 'Who did you play for' and to be able to answer a single name 'Liverpool' that would be brilliant...I don't… — Jamie Carragher Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image