Debussy Quotes

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

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. - Claude Debussy

It is our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? - Claude Debussy

In opera, there is always too much singing. - Claude Debussy

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that. - Kurt Masur