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

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

Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

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

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

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.

I begin by considering an effect.

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.

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

They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because they couldn't copy my professionalism.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

If you eat food or produce, you should take into account where that food comes from.

It is the duty of all magicians to give entertainment.

What Messi brings to a team, no other player can bring. Messi can break a match wide open.

If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.

If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.

If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.

A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it.

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.