Daring Enough Quotes by Claude Debussy

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• There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it,…
• There is nothing more musical than a sunset.
• Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any…
• On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly
• Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?
• Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know -…
• People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
• The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in…
• If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only…
• The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
• The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the…
• But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a…

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