Bluerck escribió:El Volero de Ravel is impresionante, sencillamente motivacional en todo sentido, he leido en diversas partes que es la mejor cancion para hacer el amor jamas creada. Recomiendo escuchar la interpretacion de orquesta en vivo del director Andre Rieu.

Ravel was a stringent critic of his own work. During Boléro's composition, he said to Joaquín Nin that the work had "no form, properly speaking, no development, no or almost no modulation". In a newspaper interview with The Daily Telegraph in July 1931 he spoke about the work as follows:

It constitutes an experiment in a very special and limited direction, and should not be suspected of aiming at achieving anything different from, or anything more than, it actually does achieve. Before its first performance, I issued a warning to the effect that what I had written was a piece lasting seventeen minutes and consisting wholly of "orchestral tissue without music" — of one very long, gradual crescendo. There are no contrasts, and practically no invention except the plan and the manner of execution.