Quotes of Claude Debussy - somelinesforyou

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

- Claude Debussy

“ The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew. ”

- Claude Debussy

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

- Claude Debussy

“ Extreme complication is contrary to art. ”

- Claude Debussy

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

- Claude Debussy

“ In opera, there is always too much singing. ”

- Claude Debussy

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

- Claude Debussy

“ A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. ”

- Claude Debussy

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

- Claude Debussy

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

- Claude Debussy

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

- Claude Debussy

“ Extreme complication is contrary to art. ”

- Claude Debussy

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

- Claude Debussy

“ Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. ”

- Claude Debussy

“ If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing. ”

- Claude Debussy

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

- Claude Debussy

“ To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests!... that is what I call prayer. ”

- Claude Debussy

“ A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. ”

- Claude Debussy

“ The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. ”

- Claude Debussy

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

- Claude Debussy

“ Extreme complication is contrary to art. ”

- Claude Debussy

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

- Claude Debussy

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

- Claude Debussy

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

- Claude Debussy

“ Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. ”

- Claude Debussy

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

- Claude Debussy

“ In opera, there is always too much singing. ”

- Claude Debussy

“ If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing. ”

- Claude Debussy

“ A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. ”

- Claude Debussy

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

- Claude Debussy
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