Maurice Ravel Quotes

Maurice Ravel — French Composer born on March 07, 1875, died on December 28, 1937

Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and '30s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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

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