71 Quotes by Claude Debussy
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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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Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
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It is our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand?
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Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
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The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ .
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Extreme complication is contrary to art.
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Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.
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Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can't tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created anything.
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Life is the space between our things.
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