"Music expresses the motion of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes."

Claude Debussy

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Claude Debussy

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" The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between them. "
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" Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. "
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" Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art. "
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" There is nothing more musical than a sunset. "
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" As there are no precedents, I must create anew. "
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" The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ. "
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" The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crow... "
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" How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. "
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" Have I succeeded in expressing all that I felt? It is for others to decide. Is the faith w... "
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" Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress u... "
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" The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the s... "
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" To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemer... "
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" I need a text by a poet who, resorting to discreet suggestion rather than full statement, ... "
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" The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. "
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" Music is the space between the notes. "
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" Before the passing sky, in long hours of contemplation of its magnificent and ever-changin... "
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" Every sound perceived by the acute ear in the rhythm of the world about us can be represen... "
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" Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole... "
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" First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers. "
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