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Claude Debussy Quotes
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Type: Composer Quotes Category: French Composer Quotes Date of Birth: August 22, 1862 Date of Death: March 25, 1918 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Claude Debussy Related Authors: Pierre Schaeffer Luc Ferrari Maurice Jarre Maurice Ravel Hector Berlioz Michel Legrand Georges Bizet |
A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
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. Claude Debussy Art is the most beautiful of all lies. Claude Debussy 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 Extreme complication is contrary to art. Claude Debussy First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers. Claude Debussy How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. Claude Debussy I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. Claude Debussy I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child. Claude Debussy In opera, there is always too much singing. Claude Debussy Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. Claude Debussy Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes. Claude Debussy Music is the silence between the notes. Claude Debussy People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception? Claude Debussy 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 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 The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew. Claude Debussy The century of airplanes has a right to its own music. Claude Debussy The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. 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 Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. Claude Debussy |
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