The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
Claude DebussyComposers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!
Claude DebussyI love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
Claude Debussy