"There is nothing is more musical than a……" — Claude Debussy
"There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature."
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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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