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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
You
People
Harmonic
Harmony
Finally
Those
Ravel
He
Almost
Almost All
Major
Major Influence
Know
Concept
Fischer
Came
Were
Influence
Where
Influences
Really
Bill
Whoever
Play
Four
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
You
Better
Will
Recording
Think
Percussion
Never
Ravel
Know
Than
Whoever
Original
Played
I went to a music academy in Los Angeles, and some friends started playing me Ravel and Prokofiev, who I liked, but what really blew me away was 'The Rite of Spring.' That's what made me get interested in classical music for real and want to study it.
Kamasi Washington
Music
Me
Made
Spring
Some
Angeles
Classical
Classical Music
Rite
Ravel
Study
Liked
Academy
Blew
Real
Los
Los Angeles
Friends
Get
Want
Interested
Really
Who
Away
Started
Playing
I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.
Ry Cooder
Music
World
Nervous
Composers
Classical
Classical Music
Ravel
Soothing
Particular
Like
French
Debussy
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
Maurice Ravel
You
Lose
Second-Rate
Composing
Rate
Ravel
Instead
Spontaneity
First-Rate
End
Up
Gershwin
Might
Your
Second
My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
Madeleine Peyroux
Father
Williams
Varied
Ravel
Had
Hank
Hank Williams
Ear
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
Me
Think
Musical
Aptitude
Freak
Ten
Ten Years
Piano
Piano Lessons
Ravel
Had
Years
Very
Debussy
Person
Quite
Theory
Lessons
Defeated
On my mental iPod, I always have Stravinsky and Ravel.
Steven Stucky
Mental
Ravel
Always
iPod
Stravinsky