Maurice Ravel Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Maurice Ravel Quotes and Sayings


  • 1
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 2
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    I begin by considering an effect. Maurice Ravel | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces. Maurice Ravel | Refcard PDF
  • 5
    Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second. Maurice Ravel | Refcard PDF
  • 6
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 7
    Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess! Maurice Ravel | Refcard PDF
  • 8
    The only love affair I have ever had was with music. Maurice Ravel | Refcard PDF
  • 9
    We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art. Maurice Ravel | Refcard PDF
  • 10
    You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. Maurice Ravel | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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