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Music Quotes by Claude Debussy
- 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…
- 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?
- People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
- The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
- 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…
- 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…
- Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.
- The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
- I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
- Music is the silence between the notes.
- In opera, there is always too much singing.
- Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
- Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
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