Best Quotes by Claude Debussy (Top 10)
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Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
Claude Debussy
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Music is the silence between the notes.
Claude Debussy
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Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
Claude Debussy
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A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
Claude Debussy
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Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind...
Claude Debussy
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I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
Claude Debussy
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How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
Claude Debussy
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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Claude Debussy
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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
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If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
Claude Debussy
More Claude Debussy Quotes
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the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
Claude Debussy
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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
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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
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People don't very much like things that are beautiful.. they are so far from their nasty little minds.
Claude Debussy