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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."

Jane Horrocks, English Actress

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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Philosophy, Conscious, Mind

"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Soul, Infinite, Joy

"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche."

George Crumb, American Composer

Music, Composers, Spiritual

"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics."

George Crumb, American Composer

Music, Composers, Diversity, Today

"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Soul, Love, Divine

"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."

Leo Ornstein, American Composer

Music, Hearing, Now, World

"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

Satyajit Ray, Indian Director

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"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."

Ville Valo, Finnish Musician

Music, People, Hate

"After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously."

Dan Hawkins, English Musician

Music, London, School

Explore more quotes by Maurice Ravel

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

End

"I begin by considering an effect."

Effect

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

Love

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

Art

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

Music

"I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces."

Work

"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."

Work

"For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy."

Nature

"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."

Chance