Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer, prominent in the style commonly referred to as Impressionist music.
A crucial figure in the transition to the modern era in Western music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers.
Listen to no one’s advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind…
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as Optics is the Geometry of Light.
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
Music is the silence between the notes.
There’s no need either for music to make people think! … It would be enough if music could make people listen.
To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.
Music should humbly seek to please; within these limits great beauty may perhaps be found.
First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
I believe the principle fault of the majority of writers and artists is having neither the will nor the courage to break with their successes, failing to seek new paths and give birth to new ideas
