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"Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
"If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs."
"Music made me kinder. Music made me a lover."
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"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."
"You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel."
"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."
"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."
"We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art."
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