I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.

And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by…

— Victor Borge

For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi…

— Edward Rutherfurd

For me, Debussy is the door to all 20th-century music.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I am a classical fan. I like Debussy a lot, so I was trying to learn it on the piano. I've learned like a…

— Charlie Day

What is a seemingly conservative Englishman doing, leading the world in the mastery of a classically Spanish instrument? Debussy wrote some of the best…

— Julian Bream

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical…

— Gary Lucas

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't…

— Dave Brubeck

When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what "rules" he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon plaisir "whatever I please" and he…

— Claude Debussy

No two composers were more totally at home in front of the piano than Debussy and Chopin, hands to keys to strings to sound…

— Stephen Hough

When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of…

— Claude Debussy

“When Debussy was seeming to get nowhere with an opera he was composing, he put it this way: "I spent my days pursuing the…

— Haruki Murakami

The score of Pelleas and Melisande by Debussy, heralds that which will lift man from the earthly to the celestial, from the mortal to…

— Corinne Heline

Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar. This phrase…

— Joaquin Rodrigo

I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I…

— D. H. Lawrence

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…

— Maurice Ravel