Maurice Ravel Quotes

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

Love, Music, Affair

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

Work, Pieces, Drop

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

Nature, Him, Different

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

Work, Great, Best

I begin by considering an effect.
Maurice Ravel

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
Maurice Ravel

Music, Emotional, Second

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

Single, Here, Chance

Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!
Maurice Ravel

Remember, Dead, Princess

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

Work, Art, Real

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

End, Lose, Might

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Biography

Nationality: French

Born: March 7, 1875

Died: December 28, 1937

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