A Quote by Charles Harper Webb

Neil Shepard's (T)RAVEL/ UN(T)RAVEL takes us from the sublime -- Paris in Spring, sunset on Corfu -- to an unscheduled toilet stop in a Chinese desert as fellow passengers cheer. Yes, there's light at the heart of this book; but darkness too, as the world and the traveler unravel and re-ravel, fall together, come apart. Shepard proves the best sort of traveling companion -- lively, observant, incisive, eloquent, charmed by the strange and familiar, the old and new. Climb aboard these poems. Enjoy the ride.

Charles Harper Webb

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Charles Harper Webb
American - Poet

How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.

William Faulkner

The strategic objective of New Shepard is to practice, and a lot of the subcomponents of New Shepard actually get directly reused on the second stage of New Glenn.

Jeff Bezos

I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.

Lemmy

On my mental iPod, I always have Stravinsky and Ravel.

Steven Stucky

If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time

William Faulkner

Whenever I ravel I seek the benefits of this great profession of chiropractic

Doc Severinsen

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

Madeleine Peyroux

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.

Ry Cooder

To this day, I still travel with scores. Every time I'm on a plane - it could be Stravinsky or Mozart or Ravel.

Alexandre Desplat

I don't know what will become of this piece. Our brave critics will no doubt charge me with imitating Ravel's Bolero. Too bad - this is how I hear war.

Dmitri Shostakovich

I went to a music academy in Los Angeles, and some friends started playing me Ravel and Prokofiev, who I liked, but what really blew me away was 'The Rite of Spring.' That's what made me get interested in classical music for real and want to study it.