Admiration Quote by Maurice Ravel

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

— Claude Debussy

Asian music influenced Debussy, who influenced me - it's all a huge circle.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.

— Jose Bergamin

I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.

— Ernest Newman

Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so…

— Carrie Coon

When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of…

— Claude Debussy

I can't say if I have influenced anything really, maybe a few artists but at the end of the day we are all influenced…

— Mick Harris

I'd photographed musicians before but this was different. Syd was very charismatic, and he had the aura of a poete maudit, which made him…

— Mick Rock

No I.D. helped me to just identify certain energies that I might not have really represented yet in the music that he picked up…

— Vic Mensa

Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British…

— Tinie Tempah

Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is…

— Alfred Einstein

One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th…

— Criss Angel