Claude Debussy Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.
Claude Debussy