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Claude Debussy Quotes

«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.»
«It is our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand?»
«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.»
«Extreme complication is contrary to art.»
«Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.»
«People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?»
«People don't very much like things that are beautiful -- they are so far from their nasty little minds.»
«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.»
«Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.»
«First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.»

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