"I did my work slowly, drop by drop.……" — Maurice Ravel
"I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces."
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Maurice Ravel
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15 Quotes by Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel has 15 quotes on this site.
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My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to…
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I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work…
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I begin by considering an effect.
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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…
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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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To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end…
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