We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
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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
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.
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The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
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I begin by considering an effect.
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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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