Firsts Quote by Maurice Ravel Download Open image “Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?” — Maurice Ravel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Firsts Gershwin Inspirational Rate Ravel Second rate Travel
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. — 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
Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I wanted to honor [George Gershwin]. He's a great American songwriter. — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
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Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of their kind,… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet. — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
The music changed. We had Irving Berlin and Gershwin and Lerner and Loewe and Cole Porter. Great music. Now we have 'Rent.' — Cyd Charisse Copy Share Image
Mercer was very clever. He knew the way Southerners spoke and put that into his lyrics. But in that whole era, you had the… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to. — John O'Hara 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
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
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
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