For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.
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We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.
quote by Anne Dudley
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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.
quote by Claude Debussy
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In opera, there is always too much singing.
quote by Claude Debussy
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Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
quote by Claude Debussy
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A dance with Debussy
i too was in the flood of inspiration that set the violin
into motion for his grand piece - debussy
everybody who loves the entrancing notes
that flow like flaming june in a warm noon breeze
the burst of fresh air after the sweltering shine of sun
shifting beams swirling in my piping hot coffee
under the garden tree in a scintillating flurry of bird's songs
shimmering mersmerising ensemble staged with
so much passion by the atlantic over and over
in a swirl of irresistible grace and harmony of
sky and sea that carries a generous applause
of warm foam to titilate the senses awakening
a part in me that has been lying dormant for years,
and which i recollect every now and then, taking it
like how every brialliant note s savoured in debussy's
supernova display of his music pedigree
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Extreme complication is contrary to art.
quote by Claude Debussy
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The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
quote by Claude Debussy
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Music is the silence between the notes.
quote by Claude Debussy
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If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
quote by Claude Debussy
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First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
quote by Claude Debussy
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We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly by embracing each other.
quote by Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
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A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
quote by Claude Debussy
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I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.
quote by Claude Debussy
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The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.
quote by Pierre Schaeffer
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What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me.
quote by William Kraft
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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
quote by Claude Debussy
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How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
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People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
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Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.
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Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
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