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Claude Debussy

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Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.


— Claude Debussy


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Music is the silence between the notes.


— Claude Debussy


#music #notes #silence

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.


— Claude Debussy


#beautiful #lies #most #most beautiful

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.


— Claude Debussy


#conform #hear #i #i can #i wish

Extreme complication is contrary to art.


— Claude Debussy


#complication #contrary #extreme

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.


— Claude Debussy


#because #free #i #i love #love

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.


— Claude Debussy


#changing #curves #described #expression #movement

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?


— Claude Debussy


#come #deception #form #music #oblivion

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.


— Claude Debussy


#appeal #beauty #effort #enjoyment #immediate

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.


— Claude Debussy


#first of all #forget #gentlemen #ladies #must






About Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy Quotes




Did you know about Claude Debussy?

The Preludes are frequently compared to those of Chopin. Debussy was just as influenced by other art forms as he was by music if not more so. " Specifically Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov directly influenced one of Debussy's most famous works Pelléas et Mélisande.

A crucial figure in the transition to the modern era in Western music he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. In French literary circles the style of this period was known as symbolism a movement that directly inspired Debussy both as a composer and as an active cultural participant.

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