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1. "The only love affair I have ever had was with music." ~ Maurice Ravel
2. "I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces." ~ Maurice Ravel
3. "We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art." ~ Maurice Ravel
4. "Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second." ~ Maurice Ravel
5. "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." ~ Maurice Ravel
6. "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
7. "I begin by considering an effect." ~ Maurice Ravel
8. "Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!" ~ Maurice Ravel
9. "You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel." ~ Maurice Ravel
10. "Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?" ~ Maurice Ravel

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