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



Biography
Author Profession: Composer
Nationality: French
Born: August 22, 1862
Died: March 25, 1918

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

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Claude Debussy

Extreme complication is contrary to art.
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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

Music is the silence between the notes.
Claude Debussy

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
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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

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First, First Of All, Forget, Gentlemen, Ladies, Must, Singers
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First, Forget, Gentlemen, Ladies, Must
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