Claude Debussy Quotes About Music
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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
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If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
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Music is the space between the notes.
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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.
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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.
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Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.
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In opera, there is always too much singing.
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