People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception? — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps? — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
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… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all,… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image