71 Quotes by Claude Debussy

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

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.

It is our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand?

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.

The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ .

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

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.

Life is the space between our things.