Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
Claude-Achille Debussywas a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music, though he himself disliked the term when applied to his compositions. He was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in his native France in 1903. Debussy was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his use of non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many composers who followed...
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth22 August 1862
beautiful sunset dawn
A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
wind tree advice
Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind...
sexy feelings flesh
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
music reason no-reason
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
beautiful art lying
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
color essence made
I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.
expression swag play
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
weekend silence quiet
Music is the silence between the notes.
children memories simple
The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in us. And suddenly, without our wishing it at all, one of these memories spills from us and finds expression in musical language...I want to sing my interior landscape with the simple artlessness of a child.
art musician classical-music
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
teaching butterfly wings
On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly
shadow want return
Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.
music art air
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.
dream expression feelings
But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.