Debussy Quotes

• Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary.

  Claude Debussy

  Revolutionary, Composer, Phenomenon

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• When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what "rules" he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon plaisir "whatever I please" and he further claimed that more was to be gained by watching the sun rise than by listening to the Pastoral Symphony. Although such remarks were intended to shock, they contain a core of Debussyan verity.

  Claude Debussy

  Past, Symphony, Listening

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• When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, "Let's go. He's starting to develop.

  Claude Debussy

  Two, Paris, Age

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• I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Running, Fate

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.247, Cambridge University Press

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• Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Music, Teacher, Self

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• Por Debussy el músico y el hombre he sentido una profunda admiración, pero por naturaleza soy diferente a él. Creo que personalmente siempre he seguido una dirección opuesta a la del simbolismo de Debussy.

  Maurice Ravel

  Men, Thinking, Symbolism

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• Todos compartíamos la admiración por Debussy como músico y como icono del siglo XX. Nos pareció una idea interesante retroceder 100 años para encontrar el origen de algunas ideas nuevas.

  Anne Dudley

  Years, Ideas, Icons

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• I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

  Gary Lucas

  Moving, People, Doubt

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• If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.

  Kurt Masur

  Light, Japan, Play

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• Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar. This phrase is the starting point for my Concierto de Aranjuez Our guitar is the only survivor of the rich and anarchic instrumental wildlife of the Middle Ages.

  Joaquín Rodrigo

  Believe, Guitar, Age

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• I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.

  Ernest Newman

  Ideas, Stravinsky, No Idea

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• Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!

  Dave Brubeck

  Thinking, Names, Dukes

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• Y ahora, en honor del 150 aniversario de la muerte de Beethoven, me gustaría tocar 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', de Debussy. No toco Beethoven muy bien, pero toco Debussy muy mal, y a Beethoven le habría gustado.

  Victor Borge

  Play, Saloons, Clear

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• I am a classical fan. I like Debussy a lot, so I was trying to learn it on the piano. I've learned like a third of it, but I think I'm getting to a section that may be beyond my skill level.

  Día de Charlie

  Thinking, Skills, Piano

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• La partitura de Pelleas y Melisande, de Debussy, anuncia lo que elevará al hombre de lo terrenal a lo celestial, de lo mortal a lo inmortal. Una vez más, los caminos del artista y del sanador se fusionan.

  Corinne Heline

  Inspiration, Men, Artist

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• Me encantaban Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Chaikovski, todo lo que tuviera melodías románticas, especialmente los nocturnos. Nietzsche era un héroe, sobre todo con Así habló Zaratustra. Tiene mala fama; es muy incomprendido. Es un creador de individuos y un maestro de maestros.

  Joni Mitchell

  Profesor, Rap, Héroe

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• Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.

  José Bergamín

  Music, Opposites, Doe

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• Debussy... Una chica guapa con un ojo azul y otro marrón.

  H. L. Mencken

  Música, Chica, Ojo

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