Quotes About Maurice Ravel

#1. 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

#2. To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.

Maurice Ravel

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

Maurice Ravel

#4. 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

#5. I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.

Maurice Ravel

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

Maurice Ravel

#7. 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

#8. There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

Confucius

#9. Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Maurice Ravel

#10. I begin by considering an effect.

Maurice Ravel

#11. When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel.

King Krule

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

Maurice Ravel

#13. If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

Maurice Ravel

#14. When Hillary served as Secretary of State, I watched her partner with President Obama to restore our country's reputation around the world.

Madeleine Albright

#15. People are so afraid of hearing "No" that they often don't even try. You have nothing to lose by just asking! A good friend of mine once told me, "Harv, a closed mouth won't get fed." Open your mouth! Say something if negotiations aren't going the way you'd like.

T. Harv Eker

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

Maurice Ravel

#17. Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Malcolm Forbes

#18. They can be remarkably helpful, the dregs of society. And they love rebelling against authority.

Amy Ewing

#19. Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Margaret Mitchell

#20. Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

Maurice Ravel

#21. Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

Maurice Ravel

#22. But eating carbohydrates is like eating hungry pills.

Dana Carpender

#23. The Pepper Sisters," Falk told him, "I think you just got an eyeful of the new ad campaign for their dairy."

"Were those the owners or the producers?" Jason asked.

"Both. It's an employee-owned co-op. Chemical-free too now that Pickle's quit smoking.

Ginn Hale

#24. Thus did Jack Easy make the best use that he could of his strength, and become, as it were, the champion and security

Frederick Marryat

#25. It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.

Sydney Madwed

#26. 3. There are bears and there are small dogs. Be strong like bear! If they take out your teeth, sit on the dogs. Bears always forget they can just sit on the dogs. Sit on the dogs.

Dave Eggers

#27. It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished.

Mary Borden

#28. Tell me that not everything I wrote was bad.

Maurice Ravel

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

Maurice Ravel