Quotes about Maurice Ravel

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

#Maurice Ravel

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

#Maurice Ravel

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

#Maurice Ravel

Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane...

#Maurice Ravel

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my...

#Maurice Ravel

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

#Maurice Ravel

I begin by considering an effect.

#Maurice Ravel

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There...

#Maurice Ravel

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature...

#Maurice Ravel