Claude Debussy Quotes

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

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

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

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

People don't very much like things that are beautiful -- they are so far from their nasty little minds. - Claude Debussy

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 by changing breezes. - Claude Debussy

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