Facts about Maurice Ravel

Occup.	Composer
From	France
Born	March 7, 1875
Died	December 28, 1937
Aged	62 years

Summary

Maurice Ravel was a famous Composer from France, who lived between March 7, 1875 and December 28, 1937. He/she became 62 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac pisces, who is known for Fluctuation, Depth, Imagination, Reactive, Indecisive. Our collection contains 10 quotes who is written / told by Maurice.

10 Famous quotes by Maurice Ravel

"You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel"

"The only love affair I have ever had was with music"

"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"

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

"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"

"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"

"I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces"

"We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art"

"I begin by considering an effect"

"Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!"