"My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to Th..." — Maurice Ravel

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

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

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