Danh ngôn của Maurice Ravel (Sứ mệnh: 2)

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
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.
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.