We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art
I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.
If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.
Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.