Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception? — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of… — 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… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and… — 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… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it,… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in… — 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
