Claude Debussy Quotes (24 Quotes)
- Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
(Claude Debussy)
- People don't very much like things that are beautiful -- they are so far from their nasty little minds.
(Claude Debussy)
- There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.
(Claude Debussy)
- The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
(Claude Debussy)
- Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
(Claude Debussy)
- I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
(Claude Debussy)
- Music is the silence between the notes.
(Claude Debussy)
- Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
(Claude Debussy)
- The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.
(Claude Debussy)
- First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
(Claude Debussy)
- The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
(Claude Debussy)
- The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
(Claude Debussy)
- Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
(Claude Debussy)
- In opera, there is always too much singing.
(Claude Debussy)
- People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
(Claude Debussy)
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