Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

I begin by considering an effect.

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art