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Maurice Ravel Inspirational Quotes (10)

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I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.
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To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.
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Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?
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The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
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If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.
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We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art
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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.
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I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.
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I begin by considering an effect.
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Tell me that not everything I wrote was bad.
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