Maurice Ravel Quotes

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.

Maurice Ravel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: March 7, 1875 - December 28, 1937

Topics

WorkGreatBestI AmWorstQuantity

I take people the way they are. You could work all your life to change them, and they never will. What's the point? They need to be who they are.

Melania Trump

LifeWorkChangePeopleYouWay

You should not starve yourself with stupid diets, which I don't believe in anyway.

Anna Netrebko

YourselfStupidBelieveYouShould

In a modern digitalized world, it is possible to paralyze a country without attacking its defense forces: The country can be ruined by simply bringing its SCADA systems to a halt. To impoverish a country, one can erase its banking records. The most sophisticated military technology can be rendered irrelevant. In cyberspace, no country is an island.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

TechnologyWorldCountryPossible

I enjoyed six marvellous years at Bayern winning many titles, but the fact is I don't plan on playing in Germany ever again.

Toni Kroos

WinningPlanYearsPlayingTitles

I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend a lot of time sitting around grumbling about how you're not doing the kind of work you really want to do. But there's a lot of complacency in that, too.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

WorkTimePeopleComplacencyThink

Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to underestimate them or patronise them.

Michael Morpurgo

ChildrenTimeStandLearnNever

Darkness is full of possibility.

Michael Leunig

DarknessFullPossibility

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Luigi Pirandello

LoveDreamsSleepMeDreamBed

I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.

Lisa Unger

ImaginationWindowStaircaseDark

I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

Jason Reitman

HopeYouWantOpen-MindedAnswer

I have always needed other musicians to bounce off.

Christine McVie

MusiciansAlwaysBounceOffNeeded

I'm 48 now and I would like to have another baby. I would love to because of all the things I have learned. It would be like starting all over again. But am I too old? I'm young at heart and I would be different this time round.

Brigitte Nielsen

LoveHeartTimeBabyBe Different

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