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How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

Claude Debussy

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About Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer, prominent in the style commonly referred to as Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term.

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Alternative Names: Debussy • Claude Achille Debussy • Achille Claude Debussy • C. Debussy • Claude-Achille Debussy • Achille-Claude • A. Cl. Debussy • Achille-Claude Debussy

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Additional quotes by Claude Debussy

La musique doit humblement chercher à faire plaisir, l'extrême complication est le contraire de l'art

Every sound perceived by the acute ear in the rhythm of the world about us can be represented musically. Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.

Art is of absolutely no use to the masses