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 DebussyHow much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
Claude DebussyPeter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?
Claude DebussyListen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.
Claude DebussyOn those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly
Claude DebussyInspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can't tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created anything.
Claude Debussy