Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?
I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.
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.
Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!