Claude Debussy Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• Music is the space between the notes.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Art, Weekend

  "Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving". Book by Jonathan G. Koomey (p. 96), 2001.

• 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.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Art, Air

• In opera, there is always too much singing.

  Claude Debussy

  Funny, Music, Piano

  "Debussy". Book by Paul Holmes, 1989.

• He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Clouds, Silence

• Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Beauty, Art

  "Greatness: Who Makes History and Why". Book by Dean Keith Simonton, May 20, 1994.

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

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Space, Notes

• If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Reason, No Reason

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