Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!
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You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate 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.
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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.
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