"I wish to sing of my interior visions……" — Claude Debussy

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour… - Claude Debussy

"I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child."

— Claude Debussy

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35 Quotes by Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l…
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…
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…
Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I…
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…
If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were…
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…
But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression…

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More Candour Quotes

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Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of… — Robert Sutton Harrington
We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes… — James Callaghan
The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the… — Paul Theroux
Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute… — Samuel Johnson
Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there… — Tom Hanks
God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of… — Stanley Hauerwas
People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with skeletons, demons under… — Tom Hanks

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