Claude Debussy Quotes

• A century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

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• A pink bonbon stuffed with snow.

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• People don’t very much like things that are beautiful—they are so far from their nasty little minds.

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• That old poisoner.

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• The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.

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  Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

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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.

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• First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

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• Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

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• A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

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• Extreme complication is contrary to art.

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• How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

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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.

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• I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

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• I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

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• Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

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• In opera, there is always too much singing.

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• Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

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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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• People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

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Claude Debussy (24)

Birth:	22nd August, 1862
Death:	25th March, 1918
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Composer

About

Claude-Achille Debussy born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. He was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music, though he himself disliked the term when applied to his compositions. He was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in his native France in 1903.

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