Top 19 Quotes by 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.

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

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

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

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.

Music is the silence between the notes.

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

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

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