Debussy Quotes

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child. - 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 have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams). - Gary Lucas

God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones. - Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy. - Maurice Ravel

For Chopin, everything was a pure expression of the soul and emotion... His playing had a silvery tone, and I've found it helpful to think of him as an early Debussy, with that exquisite airiness and shimmer. - Hershey Felder

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

Extreme complication is contrary to art. - 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