Maurice Ravel quotes
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“The only love affair I have ever had was with music.”
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“Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.”
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“I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.”
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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 by writing bad Ravel.”
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“Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?”
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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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“If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.”
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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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“We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art”
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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 personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.”
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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 the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.”
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“My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.”
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“Tell me that not everything I wrote was bad.”
-- Maurice Ravel
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