Maurice Ravel Quotes

"We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art."
- Maurice Ravel
(Related: Art, Work, Content, Emotion)

"The only love affair I have ever had was with music."
- Maurice Ravel
(Related: Love, Music)

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

"You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel."
- Maurice Ravel
(Related: End, First, Spontaneity)

"Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second."
- Maurice Ravel
(Related: Music, First)

"I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces."
- Maurice Ravel
(Related: Work)

"I begin by considering an effect."
- Maurice Ravel
(Related: Effect)

"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
(Related: Nature, Admiration, Direction, Man)

"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
(Related: Work, Composers, Quantity)