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"But do these people never come up with the idea that I might be artificial by nature?"

— Maurice Ravel

"Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?"

Original text (French)

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quoted in Calvocoressi's Musicians gallery, London, Faber, 1933

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