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

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


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Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.



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