Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!
I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art
I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?
Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?