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Maurice Ravel Quotes

«The only love affair I have ever had was with music.»
Author: Maurice Ravel
«You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.»
Author: Maurice Ravel
«We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.»
Author: Maurice Ravel
«Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.»
Author: Maurice Ravel
«I begin by considering an effect.»
Author: Maurice Ravel
«I look like a moor.»
Author: Maurice Ravel
«It is beautiful; it is beautiful after all; I have said nothing; I leave nothing. I have not said what I wanted to say. I have so much more to say.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Maurice Ravel
«I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.»
Author: Maurice Ravel
«Another significant influence, other than Chabrier - is from Satie, who had a notable effect on Debussy, on myself, and, to tell the truth, on the majority of modern French composers.»
Author: Maurice Ravel