Ravel Quotes

• Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

  Maurice Ravel

  Firsts, Rate, Gershwin

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• And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.

  Buddy Rich

  Thinking, Percussion, Knows

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

  Maurice Ravel

  Might, Firsts, Spontaneity

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• If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time

  William Faulkner

  Nice, Would Be, Ifs

  William Faulkner (2000). “As I lay dying: the corrected text”, Random House Inc

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• Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

  Blake Edwards

  Life, Happiness, Sex

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• I don't know what will become of this piece. Our brave critics will no doubt charge me with imitating Ravel's Bolero. Too bad - this is how I hear war.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  War, Brave, Doubt

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• Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.

  Herbie Hancock

  Play, People, Four

  "Jazz-Rock Fusion: The People - the Music". Book by Julie Coryell and Laura Friedman, pp. 161-162, 1978.

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• How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.

  William Faulkner

  Attitude, Fall, Sunset

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• Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Music, Important, Radio

  "Music (For A Film): Jonny Greenwood Of Radiohead Interviewed". Interview with Chris Woolfrey, thequietus.com. February 18, 2014.

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• To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.

  Maurice Ravel

  Writing, Quality, Spontaneous

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• I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  I've Learned, Masters, Stravinsky

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• Whenever I ravel I seek the benefits of this great profession of chiropractic

  Doc Severinsen

  Benefits, Chiropractic, Profession

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• Neil Shepard's (T)RAVEL/ UN(T)RAVEL takes us from the sublime -- Paris in Spring, sunset on Corfu -- to an unscheduled toilet stop in a Chinese desert as fellow passengers cheer. Yes, there's light at the heart of this book; but darkness too, as the world and the traveler unravel and re-ravel, fall together, come apart. Shepard proves the best sort of traveling companion -- lively, observant, incisive, eloquent, charmed by the strange and familiar, the old and new. Climb aboard these poems. Enjoy the ride.

  Charles Harper Webb

  Cheer, Spring, Fall

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• The fabric of my faithful love
  No power shall dim or ravel
  Whilst I stay here - but oh, my dear,
  If I should ever travel!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Travel, Faithful, Fabric

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.31, eBookIt.com

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• My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Father, Ears, Hank Williams

  "The singer who disappeared" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. January 12, 2005.

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• Corrival looked around. 'So is this it? Is everyone here? Erskine, maybe you should start the ball rolling. I have places to go and things to do.' 'Me?' Ravel asked. 'Why do I have to start it? You're the most respected mage here. You start it, or Skulduggery.' Skulduggery shook his head. 'I can't start it. I don't like most of these people. I might start shooting.

  Derek Landy

  People, Rolling, Balls

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• The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.

  Louise Erdrich

  Order, Brain, Trying

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• I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante defunte' but I couldn't remember if it's a tune or Latin prescription for piles.

  Les Dawson

  Latin, Ideas, Tunes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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