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.
Tell me that not everything I wrote was bad. - Maurice Ravel
Tell me that not everything I wrote was bad.
- Maurice Ravel
I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces. - Maurice Ravel
I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.
Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess! - Maurice Ravel
Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin? - Maurice Ravel
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?
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
To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second. - Maurice Ravel
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played. - Maurice Ravel
I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.
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 th… - 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 th…
I begin by considering an effect. - Maurice Ravel
I begin by considering an effect.
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