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Maurice Ravel

"Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second."

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Amber Hurdle

"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

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Amber Hurdle

"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."

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Amber Hurdle

"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."

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"The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song."

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"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."
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"You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel."
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"I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little."
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"I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces."
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Maurice Ravel
"Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second."
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