Debussy Quotes

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

When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. - Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

When we are not in love too much, we are not in love enough. - Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me. - William Kraft

We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now. - Anne Dudley

Verdi is my god and my other influences are Berlioz and Puccini, with a dash of Debussy in my orchestration. - Lloyd George

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 impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward. - Pierre Schaeffer

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