All Claude Debussy Quotes
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
Claude Debussy
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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
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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
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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Claude Debussy
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First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
Claude Debussy
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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
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How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
Claude Debussy
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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.
Claude Debussy
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I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
Claude Debussy
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Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
Claude Debussy
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