Claude Debussy Quotes - Page 3

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• Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

  Claude Debussy

  Airplane, Victory, Progress

  "Music in History: The Evolution of an Art". Book by Howard Decker McKinney and William Robert Anderson, 1957.

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• In opera, there is always too much singing.

  Claude Debussy

  Funny, Music, Piano

  "Debussy". Book by Paul Holmes, 1989.

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• The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.

  Claude Debussy

  Worship, Christ, United

  "Claude Debussy: His Life and Works". Book by Leon Vallas, 1933.

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• First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

  Claude Debussy

  Gentleman, Singers, Firsts

  Claude Debussy's instructions to the singers in his opera "Pelléas et Mélisande", as quoted in Henry William Simon "100 Great Operas and Their Stories" (p. 371), 1989.

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• Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Space, Notes

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