I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. Claude Debussy More Quotes by Claude Debussy More Quotes From Claude Debussy How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. Claude Debussy nakedsexyfeelings If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing. Claude Debussy no-reasonmusicreason Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. Claude Debussy lawwishpeople The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. Claude Debussy ironsouldream There is nothing more musical than a sunset. Claude Debussy sunrisesunsetmusical There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law. Claude Debussy pleasuretheorylaw Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront. Claude Debussy affrontstrikespeople 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 may happen. Claude Debussy circuscrowdsdangerous Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles! Claude Debussy ubiquitycommon-senseidols People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds. Claude Debussy mindbeautifulpeople 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 hopebeautifulart Life is the space between our things. Claude Debussy space-betweenspacelife-is I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child. Claude Debussy visionwishchildren The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence. Claude Debussy automobilediligenceage Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is. Claude Debussy variationlightwriting Extreme complication is contrary to art. Claude Debussy complicationextremesart I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns. Claude Debussy horrorsaintnames If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered. Claude Debussy religiousyesterdayfeelings He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting. Claude Debussy musicsilenceclouds The century of airplanes has a right to its own music. Claude Debussy airplanecentury
