Henri Prunieres commenting on the music of Claude Debussy He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the wavessubleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting.
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The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.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.
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A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
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Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.
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First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
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Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
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