“ Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second. ”
Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?
~ Maurice Ravel
I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
