Collect impressions. Don’t be in a hurry to write them down… - Claude Debussy

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Collect impressions. Don’t be in a hurry to write them down. Because that’s something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture — a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is.

Claude Debussy

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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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