"The century of airplanes has a right to…" — Claude Debussy
"The century of airplanes has a right to its own music."
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Claude Debussy
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35 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…
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There is nothing more musical than a sunset.
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Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us…
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On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly
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Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between…
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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…
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People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
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The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold…
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If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were…
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The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
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The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is…
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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…
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More Airplane Quotes
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation.…
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— Charles Schumer
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Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its…
— Wernher von Braun
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I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.
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Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be…
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Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away…
— Jacques Charles
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
— Otto Lilienthal
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