Maurice Ravel

Quotes by Maurice Ravel

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Composer · French · 1875–1937

French composer (1875–1937)

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“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.”

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“Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?”
— Maurice Ravel
artist creativity humor self-knowledge

“I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.”
— Maurice Ravel
Me Slowly Drop

“Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.”
— Maurice Ravel
Emotional Intellectual

“The only love affair I have ever had was with music.”
— Maurice Ravel
Love Affair Only Love

“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 ...”
— Maurice Ravel
Perfection Intuition

“We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.”
— Maurice Ravel
Work Remember Emotion

“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...”
— Maurice Ravel

“Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?”
— Maurice Ravel

“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.”
— Maurice Ravel