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Claude Debussy Quotes: There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.
         

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.


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There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.



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.

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.



Music is the space between the notes.

Music is the space between the notes.



Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.



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.

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.



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.



[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.



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.

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.



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

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



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

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





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There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions, taking your lotus posture or whatever it is. That's what you're doing.

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And you know, I'm so used to going 100 miles an hour in every direction and sleeping you know, two, three hours a night, and that's the way I live.

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It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

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The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone

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