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

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

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.

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

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!

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

Life is all about what you make of you”.

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Learning professionals need to be thinking about creating learning experiences rather than learning content

Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.

People are ready to take the good things into their minds! Give them good and right ideas; they will immediately take them as if they are taking beautiful flowers!

I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.