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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Claude Debussy
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Claude Debussy
Age: 55 †
Born: 1862
Born: August 22
Died: 1918
Died: March 25
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St. Germain-en-Laye
Claud Debussy
Debussy
Claude Achille Debussy
Achille Claude Debussy
C. Debussy
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Achille-Claude Debussy
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Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is.
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There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.
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If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.
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How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
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 may happen.
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The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.
Claude Debussy
Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.
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The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.
Claude Debussy
The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.
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What I am trying to do is something different - an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner, the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art.
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Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?
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The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary.
Claude Debussy
Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.
Claude Debussy
I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.
Claude Debussy
Life is the space between our things.
Claude Debussy
Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can't tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created anything.
Claude Debussy
But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.
Claude Debussy
To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.
Claude Debussy
The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
Claude Debussy
