Top 19 Quotes by Claude Debussy

In opera, there is always too much singing.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

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.

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?

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.

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.