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Why become a second-rate Rave...

Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

Maurice Ravel 17 quotes

We should always remember tha...

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art

Maurice Ravel 17 quotes

To George Gershwin, on refusi...

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 17 quotes

In fact, the influence of Sch...

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 mad?casses are in no way Schoenbergian, but I do not know whether I ever should have been able to write them had Schoenberg never written.

Maurice Ravel 17 quotes

My intention here is to make ...

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 17 quotes

I begin by considering an eff...

I begin by considering an effect.

Maurice Ravel 17 quotes

You might lose your spontanei...

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

Maurice Ravel 17 quotes

The only love affair I have e...

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

Maurice Ravel 17 quotes

I am not one of the great com...

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 17 quotes

We should always remember tha...

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

Maurice Ravel 17 quotes

For Debussy the musician and ...

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 17 quotes

I did my work slowly, drop by...

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

Maurice Ravel 17 quotes

The only love affair I have ev...

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

Maurice Ravel 17 quotes

Does it not occur to people th...

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

Maurice Ravel 17 quotes

To George Gershwin, on refusin...

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 17 quotes

Why become a second-rate Ravel...

Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

Maurice Ravel 17 quotes

If he'd been making shell-case...

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

Maurice Ravel 17 quotes

I do not ask for my music to b...

I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.

Maurice Ravel 17 quotes

We should always remember that...

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art

Maurice Ravel 17 quotes

For Debussy the musician and t...

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 17 quotes

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