All Quotes by Maurice Ravel
“The only love affair I have ever had was with music.”
“I have the intention to dedicate Le Gibet to you. It is not because I think you merit a rope to hang yourself, but because it is the least difficult of the three pieces.”
“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.”
“We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.”