You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?
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