It is our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand
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In opera, there is always too much singing.Claude Debussy
People don't very much like things that are beautiful -- they are so far from their nasty little minds.
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People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
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
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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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
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