71 Quotes by Claude Debussy

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

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.

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 will happen.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.