French - Composer | August 22, 1862 - March 25, 1918
A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
Claude Debussy
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Music is the silence between the notes.
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There is nothing is 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.
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Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
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How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
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Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
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People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
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I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
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I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.
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Extreme complication is contrary to art.
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Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
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