Claude Debussy Quotes about Music

Music is the space between the notes.

Music, Art, Weekend

"Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving". Book by Jonathan G. Koomey (p. 96), 2001.

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

Music, Art, Air

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

Claude Debussy

Music, Beauty, Art

"Greatness: Who Makes History and Why". Book by Dean Keith Simonton, May 20, 1994.

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

Claude Debussy

Music, Reason, No Reason

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

Music, Clouds, Silence