71 Quotes by Claude Debussy

Music is in the space between the notes.

The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.

If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary...

What I am trying to do is something different an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism , a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner , the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art.