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Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. — Claude Debussy

The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams. — Claude Debussy

The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. — Claude Debussy

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child. — Claude Debussy

To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love. — Claude Debussy

The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ . — Claude Debussy

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. — Claude Debussy

Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile. — Claude Debussy

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind ... — Claude Debussy

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

Music is in the space between the notes. — Claude Debussy

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. — Claude Debussy

Extreme complication is contrary to art. — Claude Debussy

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly — Claude Debussy

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes. — Claude Debussy

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

If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing. — Claude Debussy

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront. — Claude Debussy

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers. — Claude Debussy

There is nothing more musical than a sunset. — Claude Debussy

Art is the most beautiful of all lies. — Claude Debussy

Music is the silence between the notes. — Claude Debussy

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception? — Claude Debussy

It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion. — Claude Debussy

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

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music. — Claude Debussy

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. — Claude Debussy

The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence. — Claude Debussy

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

People don't very much like things that are beautiful.. they are so far from their nasty little minds. — Claude Debussy

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. — Claude Debussy

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

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

In opera, there is always too much singing. — Claude Debussy

Life is the space between our things. — Claude Debussy

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