You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
Maurice RavelI 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 RavelRemember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!
Maurice Ravel