A Quote by Maurice Ravel

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

Maurice Ravel

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Music Emotional Feel First Intellectual Must Second

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Maurice Ravel
French - Composer
March 7, 1875 - December 28, 1937

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Brother Ali

I think emotion is just anything that is emotional, you know, people can feel with music. Music is already so emotional, like the strings, the chords, and the notes and the melodies and stuff. And then you throw on a topic that everyone can relate to. That's gonna be real music.

Sam McCandless

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe of semi-wording into definite language, before it reaches another heart. Music is a first translation of feeling, needing no second, but entering the heart direct.

Frances Ridley Havergal

I feel really blessed to first of all have the opportunity to do music, and second of all to have it be going well.

Laura Bell Bundy

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C. S. Lewis

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Heather Mac Donald

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Andrei Tarkovsky

[What I want to communicate] doesn't have a language with which I can communicate it. The things that I want to communicate are simply self-evident, emotional things. And the gifts of those things are that they bring both intellectual and emotional gifts - understanding. But I don't really have a major message that I want to bring to the world through my music. The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it. I just discovered it.

Jeff Buckley

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Daniel Goleman

I feel that when I listen to music - not that it's bad - it's not emotional. It has a gimmick to it. It's selling something: the artist, the producer, something. The emotional capacity is very small, for the listener as well.

Linda Perry

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Unknown

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George Polya

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