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"Music expresses the motion of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes."
Claude Debussy
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Claude Debussy
France - Musician
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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 music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
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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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Claude Debussy
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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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