Quotes About Ravel

#1. The fabric of space/time is much like one of the elaborate Vatican tapestries, thinks Nemes, and she who begins pulling on loose threads does so at the peril of watching the whole tapestry ravel.

Dan Simmons

#2. If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time

William Faulkner

#3. Ghastly and Anton have been murdered. Ravel's betrayed us. Valkyrie is ... gone. The Dead Men have had their last stand and we've fallen, Saracen. The three of us are all that remain. - Skulduggery

Derek Landy

#4. Tricking?" Ravel said. "I wouldn't call it tricking, no. Manipulating? It could possibly be seen as manipulating.

Derek Landy

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

Maurice Ravel

#6. For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me, but I had a freak aptitude for Debussy and Ravel.

Ronald Frame

#7. And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.

Buddy Rich

#8. I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#9. How do our lives ravel out
into the no-wind, no-sound,
the weary gestures wearily recapitulant:
echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string:
in sunset we fall into furious attitudes,
dead gestures of dolls.

William Faulkner

#10. The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.

Louise Erdrich

#11. I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante defunte' but I couldn't remember if it's a tune or Latin prescription for piles.

Les Dawson

#12. Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel.

Jonny Greenwood

#13. Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

Blake Edwards

#14. And Ghastly became aware of Ravel's eyes, brimming with tears, those eyes that had many a lady swooning over him down through the centuries. Those golden eyes.

Derek Landy

#15. Whenever I ravel I seek the benefits of this great profession of chiropractic

Doc Severinsen

#16. My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

Madeleine Peyroux

#17. 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

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

Maurice Ravel

#19. About the other one, which for the moment bears the code name Dedale 39, we know only what Ravel is willing to say about it one day to Manuael De Falla: it was supposed to be an airplane in the key of C.

Jean Echenoz

#20. 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

#21. Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.

Herbie Hancock

#22. The fabric of my faithful love
No power shall dim or ravel
Whilst I stay here - but oh, my dear,
If I should ever travel!

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#23. I don't know what will become of this piece. Our brave critics will no doubt charge me with imitating Ravel's Bolero. Too bad - this is how I hear war.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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

Maurice Ravel

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

Maurice Ravel

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

Maurice Ravel

#27. Love means you are completely helpless and there's nothing you can do about it except duck or plunge. But you can't change it, you can't change the way you feel.

Edeet Ravel

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

Maurice Ravel

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

Maurice Ravel

#30. People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.

Edeet Ravel

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

Maurice Ravel

#32. I wondered why I hadn't realized before that art was hard because you had to recreate not merely the scene but the way it soared into your soul and changed you.

Edeet Ravel

#33. I begin by considering an effect.

Maurice Ravel

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

Maurice Ravel

#35. 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

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

Maurice Ravel

#37. He things we think he's a double agent, working for them but secretly working for us. He doesn't know we know he's a triple agent, working for them but secretly working for us but really he's secretly working for them. Dexter, how's your brain?"
"Hurting.

Derek Landy

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

Maurice Ravel

#39. 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

#40. And yet I was filled with grief. In the beginning of all love there is grief, because at that moment you're closest to the ghost of parting. You know how easily it could all slip away, how easily it could evaporate into eternal, never-to-be-consummated longing.

Edeet Ravel

#41. Someone once told me a joke," he said. "I'd like to be a pacifist, but people keep getting in the way.' I made a decision to fight for my friend in prison. It was a deliberate decision. It isn't the only way-it's just something I decided.

Edeet Ravel

#42. 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

#43. That's what the army did, it created crises before any existed; it created a military emergency out of the void, the way God created the heavens and the earth.

Edeet Ravel