"Remember that I wrote a pavane for a……" — Maurice Ravel
"Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!"
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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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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…
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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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To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end…
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More Dead Quotes
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
— David Attenborough
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
— Margaret Atwood
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
— Sri Aurobindo
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the…
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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