Quotes about Claude Debussy

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus...

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Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render...

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

#Claude Debussy

Music is the silence between the notes.

#Claude Debussy

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described...

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

#Claude Debussy

In opera, there is always too much singing.

#Claude Debussy

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...

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

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

#Claude Debussy

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

#Claude Debussy