9 quotes found
Composer · French · 1875–1937
French composer (1875–1937)
“The only love affair I have ever had was with music.”
“Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.”
“Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?”
“I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.”
“Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?”
“We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.”
“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 ...”
“Then M. Ravel discussed another idea. That was that in these days of cacophony it might be quite an original idea for the orchestra to start, say, in C major, and then, through a series of discords...”
“I have the intention to dedicate Le Gibet to you. It is not because I think you merit a rope to hang yourself, but because it is the least difficult of the three pieces.”