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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. "
Nature
Always
Direction
" 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. "
Always
Best
Great
" I begin by considering an effect. "
Considering
Effect
Begin
" I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces. "
Pieces
Slowly
Work
" Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second. "
Intellectual
Emotional
Feel
" 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. "
Perfection
Chance
Intention
" Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess! "
Remember
Princess
Dead
" The only love affair I have ever had was with music. "
Only
Love
Love Affair
" We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art. "
Content
Always
Remember
" You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. "
You
Up
Spontaneity
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