Ravel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

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I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
-- Madeleine Peyroux

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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

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

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

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Whenever I ravel I seek the benefits of this great profession of chiropractic
-- Doc Severinsen

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Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you
My job happens to be sports-related, so it's like my duty to watch football. It's my job. But that's not a change for me. When you're 18, it's life and death, because you don't have a kid, and it's a much bigger deal when you're 18. Having a kid - when the Vikings lost the 2009 NFC title game, it sucked, and I'm not happy about it, but my kid is still alive. You have to have that horrible forced perspective that you don't want.
Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness. The question becomes what to do with the pieces?
People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!
That's progress-when we prove things wrong.
Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
I just rely on the text to speak for itself and then speak it as I believe it to interpret it, and then just know that the rules of the world that we're creating allow for things to come to life, and then just trust in the process of making a film. Hopefully we'll make a sequel, because if we do, we had such a great time as an ensemble, I think the best thing to do would be to just take the whole cast back. This is Iain's idea and I agree with it. Just reincarnate all the characters and put them back into the world. There's no rules. Why couldn't we do that?
Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the constitution, are constitutional.
Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold...