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"I look like a moor." — Maurice Ravel
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"The only love affair I have ever had was with music." — Maurice Ravel
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"We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art." — Maurice Ravel
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"Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second." — Maurice Ravel
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"It is beautiful; it is beautiful after all; I have said nothing; I leave nothing. I have not said what I wanted to say. I have so much more to say." — Maurice Ravel
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"I begin by considering an effect." — Maurice Ravel
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"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
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"Another significant influence, other than Chabrier - is from Satie, who had a notable effect on Debussy, on myself, and, to tell the truth, on the majority of modern French composers." — Maurice Ravel
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"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
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"I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces." — Maurice Ravel
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"You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel." — Maurice Ravel
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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." — Maurice Ravel
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"Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!" — Maurice Ravel
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