Maurice Ravel Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Maurice Ravel
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art. — Maurice Ravel
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. — Maurice Ravel
If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music. — Maurice Ravel
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. — Maurice Ravel
The only love affair I have ever had was with music. — Maurice Ravel
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. — Maurice Ravel
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second. — Maurice Ravel
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. — Maurice Ravel
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
Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess! — Maurice Ravel
Tell me that not everything I wrote was bad. — Maurice Ravel