Music From Claude Debussy Quotes & Sayings

Could you help Miss Everhart find her way out of my office? And could you please have the janitor check my floors for fucking superglue? *** — Whitney Gracia Williams

Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone. — Jennifer Young

He's my brother, my blood. He annoys the hell out of me most of the time, but when it comes right down to it I want to see him graduate from college and have little annoying mini-Alexes and mini-Brittanys running around in the future — Simone Elkeles

Music is in the space between the notes. — Claude Debussy

I couldn't figure out if it was fate or faith that had brought me there. How funny those two words sounded when paired together. One was the inevitable, something I could not change in my life, while the other was the hope and belief that I could. These two words were enemies of each other, and one of them was down right dangerous for a slave to have anywhere near his mind. — Jay Grewal

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes. — Claude Debussy

And even if she did find them ugly, she would never say so, because flattery had long since become second nature to her — Milan Kundera

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. — Claude Debussy

When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel. — King Krule

Many, if not most, career opportunities come to you through people you know. So the more people you know, the more opportunities you have. Improving your social network is a great example of a system for moving from lower odds to better odds without having a specific goal. — Scott Adams

He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting. — Claude Debussy

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

think Cool Girl could ever really like me. — James Patterson

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art. — Claude Debussy

The world can't take these smiles away. — John Reuben Zappin

I can't promise you forever, because that's not long enough. - Jason Dorsey — Jasinda Wilder

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew. — Claude Debussy

Music is the silence between the notes. — Claude Debussy

The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams. — Claude Debussy

After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they'd actually made some sort of choice. — Tom Perrotta

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes. — Claude Debussy

It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion. — Claude Debussy

Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person
and often many
who have believed in him or her. We just don't get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others. — Fred Rogers

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly — Claude Debussy

If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing. — Claude Debussy

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself. — Claude Debussy

Puerto Ricans who find they can no longer afford to keep their pets often choose to drop their dogs, sometimes even whole litters of puppies, at a beach - sometimes under cover of night, in secret - rather than surrender the animal to a city or state-run shelter where the animals will face grim conditions and almost certain death by euthanasia. — Juliana Hatfield

Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile. — Claude Debussy

I don't want to become like him. Become one of those people who believe it's okay to do anything to anyone if it achieves the 'right' end. — Lisa M. Lilly

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms. — Claude Debussy

One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murderer" (386). — Kenneth Pollack

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception? — Claude Debussy

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps? — Claude Debussy

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them. — Claude Debussy

The human race is a monotonous thing. Most people work most of the time in order to live, and the little freedom they have left over frightens them so, that they will do anything to get rid of it. Oh, the regimentation of mankind! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is. — Claude Debussy

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