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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
And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that. -- Buddy Rich
I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante defunte' but I couldn't remember if it's a tune or Latin prescription for piles. -- Les Dawson
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. -- Maurice Ravel
Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero. -- Blake Edwards
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
Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel. -- Jonny Greenwood
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin? -- Maurice Ravel
To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel. -- Maurice Ravel
For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me, but I had a freak aptitude for Debussy and Ravel. -- Ronald Frame
Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were. -- Herbie Hancock
Whenever I ravel I seek the benefits of this great profession of chiropractic -- Doc Severinsen
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
The fabric of my faithful love No power shall dim or ravel Whilst I stay here - but oh, my dear, If I should ever travel! -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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 story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections. -- Louise Erdrich
Corrival looked around. 'So is this it? Is everyone here? Erskine, maybe you should start the ball rolling. I have places to go and things to do.' 'Me?' Ravel asked. 'Why do I have to start it? You're the most respected mage here. You start it, or Skulduggery.' Skulduggery shook his head. 'I can't start it. I don't like most of these people. I might start shooting. -- Derek Landy
When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel. -- King Krule

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