You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
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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
Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!
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Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
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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.
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I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.
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