Art Quote by Maurice Ravel

“We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art”

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The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

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Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

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“Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?”

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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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I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and…

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Tell me that not everything I wrote was bad.

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To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.

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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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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…

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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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