To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad 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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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.
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Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!
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I begin by considering an effect.
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