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

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• Maurice Ravel:

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

• Maurice Ravel:

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

• Maurice Ravel:

  For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different fr

• Maurice Ravel:

  I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in

• Joseph Haydn:

  I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were develope

• John Tavener:

  We seem to have lost our contact with the primordial: the idea of - call it divine revelation as op

• Gioachino Rossini:

  Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

• Hoagy Carmichael:

  I don't think I'll ever be president of anything.

• Ned Rorem:

  Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

• Eubie Blake:

  Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.