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