Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary.
- Claude Debussy
More Quotes By Claude Debussy
- When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a...
- When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what “rules” he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon...
- There is nothing more musical than a sunset.
- There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And...
- But music, don’t you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It’s not even...
- Music is the space between the notes.
- The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird...
- Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.
- Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to...
- Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
- [on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
- Listen to no one’s advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole...
- On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer...
- Art is the most beautiful deception of all!
- There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more...
Leave a comment
