Claude Debussy Professions : Composer Born : August 22, 1862 Died : March 25, 1918 Browse All Authors Top 60 quotes by Claude Debussy But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself. Claude Debussy expression dream feelings There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art. Claude Debussy music air art Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them. Claude Debussy return shadow want The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in us. And suddenly, without our wishing it at all, one of these memories spills from us and finds expression in musical language...I want to sing my interior landscape with the simple artlessness of a child. Claude Debussy simple memories children Music is the space between the notes. Claude Debussy weekend music art Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art. Claude Debussy classical-music musician art Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes. Claude Debussy curves swag expression I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms. Claude Debussy form color essence Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind. Claude Debussy tree advice wind On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly Claude Debussy assessment butterfly teaching Art is the most beautiful deception of all! Claude Debussy beautiful lying art I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. Claude Debussy music-love tradition trying It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion. Claude Debussy abandon oblivion people When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, "Let's go. He's starting to develop. Claude Debussy paris age two When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what "rules" he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon plaisir "whatever I please" and he further claimed that more was to be gained by watching the sun rise than by listening to the Pastoral Symphony. Although such remarks were intended to shock, they contain a core of Debussyan verity. Claude Debussy symphony listening past Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile. Claude Debussy impressionists imbeciles [on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. Claude Debussy sunrise sunset beautiful There is nothing 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. Claude Debussy sunset beautiful book To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love. Claude Debussy one-you-love someone-you-love Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. Claude Debussy music beauty art Similar Authors Igor Stravinsky composer Irving Berlin composer Brian Ferneyhough composer Bryce Dessner composer Bradley Joseph composer Boudleaux Bryant composer All Authors
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