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Maurice Ravel quotes

French Composer March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937

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Maurice Ravel quote: "The only love affair I have ever had was with music."
The only love affair I have ever had was with music. 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
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
Maurice Ravel quote: "We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion..."
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art. 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
Maurice Ravel quote: "Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second."
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second. Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel quote: "Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?"
Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature? Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel quote: "I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by..."
I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces. Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel quote: "You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing..."
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel quote: "Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a..."
Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess! Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel quote: "I begin by considering an effect."
I begin by considering an effect. Maurice Ravel

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