Quotes by Maurice Ravel - Page 1

I begin by considering an effect.
Maurice Ravel / Composer
Considering
Effects
Begin
Effect
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Tell me that not everything I wrote was bad.
Maurice Ravel / Composer
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The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
Maurice Ravel / Composer
Inspiring
Love
Music
Affair
Love Affair
Only Love
Had
Only
Ever
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Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
Maurice Ravel / Composer
Music
Emotional
Firsts
Intellectual
Feel
First
Must
Second
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Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?
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Doe
Might
People
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I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.
Maurice Ravel / Composer
Pieces
Did
Drop
Slowly
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Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?
Maurice Ravel / Composer
Firsts
Rate
Ravel
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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.
Maurice Ravel / Composer
War
Musical
Shells
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Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!
Maurice Ravel / Composer
Princess
Remember
Dead
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We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art
Maurice Ravel / Composer
Art
Emotion
Real
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We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
Maurice Ravel / Composer
Emotion
Real
Remember
Should
Art Work Always
Constitute
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You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
Maurice Ravel / Composer
Composing
Firsts
Gershwin
Might
Rate
Ravel
Spontaneity
First-Rate
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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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Quality
Ravel
Writing
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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.
Maurice Ravel / Composer
Composer
Littles
Quantity
Worst
Best Work Great
Composers
Relatively
Produced
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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.
Maurice Ravel / Composer
Men
Admiration
Debussy
Musician
Profound
Symbolism
Thinking
Direction
Followed
Opposed
Personally
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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.
Maurice Ravel / Composer
Chance
Cells
Clear
Composition
Inevitability
Intention
Intuition
Mathematical
Mathematical Equations
Moved
Precision
Ravens
Regard
Single
Cell
Equation
Towards
Raven
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In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified with influences of a more subtle kind - not the system, but the aesthetic, of his art. I am quite conscious of the fact that my Chansons madécasses are in no way Schoenbergian, but I do not know whether I ever should have been able to write them had Schoenberg never written.
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Art
Should Have
Writing
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