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Claude Debussy

Read through the most famous quotes from Claude Debussy




How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.


— Claude Debussy


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I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.


— Claude Debussy


#i #i wish #interior #naive #sing

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.


— Claude Debussy


#geometry #light #music #optics #sounds

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.


— Claude Debussy


#attraction #circus #crowd #dangerous #happen

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.


— Claude Debussy


#dawn #mistaken #sunset

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.


— Claude Debussy


#music #own #right

In opera, there is always too much singing.


— Claude Debussy


#much #opera #singing #too #too much






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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