There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
Claude Debussy
Born: August 22, 1862 Died: March 25, 1918
Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer, prominent in the style commonly referred to as Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term.
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Alternative Names for Claude Debussy
Birth name - Original name given at birth:
- Achille-Claude Debussy (French (fr))
The century of airplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
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Art is the most beautiful of all lies
I love music passionately. And because I love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.
Un artiste est par définition un homme habitué au rêve et qui vit parmi des fantômes.
the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad
bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
Proust is long-winded, precious, and a bit of an old woman
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light
Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind...
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth — an open-air art, boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.
People don't very much like things that are beautiful.. they are so far from their nasty little minds.
Music is the space between the notes.