Composer Quote by Claude Debussy

“Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary.”

Claude Debussy

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The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.

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Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

Claude Debussy

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Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

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Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

Claude Debussy

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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…

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There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all…

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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

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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

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If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from…

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the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.

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Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

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Music is the space between the notes.

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