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Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy

French Composer

Born: Aug 22, 1862

Died: Mar 25, 1918

Art Beautiful Music People Wish You

Related authors: Hector Berlioz Jules Massenet Maurice Jarre Maurice Ravel Olivier Messiaen Pierre Boulez Pierre Schaeffer

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. Claude Debussy

Beautiful Sunset Dawn Mistaken

Art is the most beautiful of all lies. Claude Debussy

Beautiful Art Most Beautiful Lies Most

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. Claude Debussy

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. Claude Debussy

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. Claude Debussy

Feeling Naked Before Reaching Discarded How How Much Much Explored Flesh

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

Love Music Try Free Because Stifle Passionately Traditions Barren

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

Interior Wish Visions Naive Sing Child

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

Music Own Airplane Century Right

Extreme complication is contrary to art. Claude Debussy

Art Extreme Complication Contrary

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