A Ravel Reader: Correspondence, Article...
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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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“Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.”
Source: A Ravel Reader: Correspondence, Articles, Interviews
“I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.”
“If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.”
“Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?”