Debussy Quotes
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Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
— Claude Debussy
The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.
— Claude Debussy
The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
— Claude Debussy
The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ .
— Claude Debussy
A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
— Claude Debussy
Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.
— Claude Debussy
Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind ...
— Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary ...
— Claude Debussy
Music is in the space between the notes.
— Claude Debussy
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
— Claude Debussy
Extreme complication is contrary to art.
— Claude Debussy
On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly
— Claude Debussy
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
— Claude Debussy
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
— Claude Debussy
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
— Claude Debussy
Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.
— Claude Debussy
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
— Claude Debussy
I think of a sun like Beethoven, a wind like Debussy, and birdcalls like Stravinsky. But the tempo is all mine.
— Patricia Highsmith
But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.
— Claude Debussy
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
— Toru Takemitsu
The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
— Claude Debussy
Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.
— Jose Bergamin
Music is the silence between the notes.
— Claude Debussy
All that was a dream, you couldn't hold on, you couldn't depend on frosted glass and Debussy.
— Janet Fitch
It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.
— Claude Debussy
The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.
— Pierre Schaeffer
The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.
— Claude Debussy
People don't very much like things that are beautiful.. they are so far from their nasty little minds.
— Claude Debussy
DebussyA pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one. — H.L. Mencken
There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.
— Claude Debussy
Life is the space between our things.
— Claude Debussy
The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.
— Claude Debussy
In opera, there is always too much singing.
— Claude Debussy
The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
— Claude Debussy
There is nothing more musical than a sunset.
— Claude Debussy
I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.
— Ernest Newman
