The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
More Quotes from Claude Debussy:
People don't very much like things that are beautiful -- they are so far from their nasty little minds.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
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
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Music is the silence between the notes.
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
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
Claude Debussy
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