Claude Debussy People Quotations

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

People don't very much like things that are beautiful.. they are so far from their nasty little minds.

It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

People don't very much like things that are beautiful -- they are so far from their nasty little minds.