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

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Before Discarded Explored Feeling Flesh How How Much Much Naked Reaching

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

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Barren Because Free Love Music Passionately Stifle Traditions Try I Love

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

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Airplane Century Music Own Right

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Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Above Conform Hear Law Listen Only People Pleasure Render Rules Some Some People Theory Wish You I Wish I Can

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The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Always Attraction Circus Crowd Dangerous Happen Hope Like Public Something Very Will

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Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Although Art Beautiful Become Deception Events Everyday Factory Hope Incorporate Lest Life Most Most Beautiful Must People Remain Sad Thing Try Utilitarian Will

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In opera, there is always too much singing.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Always Much Opera Singing Too Too Much

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

~Claude Debussy

Topics: First First Of All Forget Gentlemen Ladies Must Singers You

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

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Also Come Deception Form Music Oblivion People Seek

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Composer

Born: August 22nd, 1862

Died: March 25th, 1918

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