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Claude Debussy
French
Composer
About the author
Music is the silence between the notes.
Claude Debussy,
French
Composer
#Music
#Silence
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
Claude Debussy,
French
Composer
#Art
#Rules
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,
French
Composer
#Will
#Nothing
#Nature
#Musicians
#Development
#Example
#Sunset
The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
Claude Debussy,
French
Composer
#Right
#Music
#Airplanes
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,
French
Composer
#Hope
#Public
#Will
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
Claude Debussy,
French
Composer
#People
#Music
#Deception
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
Claude Debussy,
French
Composer
#Play
#Music
#Expression
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Claude Debussy,
French
Composer
#Light
#Music
#Geometry
#Arithmetic
In opera, there is always too much singing.
Claude Debussy,
French
Composer
#Singing
#Opera
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.
Claude Debussy,
French
Composer
#Life
#Hope
#People
#Will
#Art
#Events
#Deception
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.
Claude Debussy,
French
Composer
#People
#Law
#Pleasure
#Rules
#Theory
I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.
Claude Debussy,
French
Composer
#Visions
A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
Claude Debussy,
French
Composer
#Dawn
#Sunset
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Claude Debussy,
French
Composer
#Art
#Lies
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,
French
Composer
#Effort
#Beauty
#Senses
#Enjoyment
Extreme complication is contrary to art.
Claude Debussy,
French
Composer
#Art
#Extreme
First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
Claude Debussy,
French
Composer
#Forget
#First
#Ladies
#Gentlemen
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
Claude Debussy,
French
Composer
#Feeling
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
Claude Debussy,
French
Composer
#Love
#Music
#Traditions