All Claude Debussy Quotes
- There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to… Academic
- There is nothing more musical than a sunset. Inspirational
- 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… Any
- On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly Butterfly
- Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps? Dance
- 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, it's… Afraid
- People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception? Deception
- The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in us. And suddenly,… All
- If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful… Arabesques
- The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew. Aeroplanes
- The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something… Attraction
- 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… Been
- Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto… Ballads
- He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before… Been
- Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes. Accents
- The century of airplanes has a right to its own music. Airplane
- Extreme complication is contrary to art. Art
- There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law. Inspirational
- I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. Barren
- 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… All