Creative Quotations for Aug 22 from Claude Debussy
FRANK
from http://www.bemorecreative.com/one/1425.htm
Foraging:
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Reflecting:
The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the
steeple of my dreams.
Adopting:
The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no
precedents, I must create anew.
Nurturing:
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked
flesh of feeling.
Knuckling Down:
People don't very much like things that are beautiful -- they are so
far from their nasty little minds.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) born on Aug 22
French composer
He was the creator of musical impressionism; wrote piano piece "Claire
de Lune," 1905.
SOURCES OF QUOTATIONS:
F: Attributed.
R: Letter, 1894.
A: In "La Revue S.I.M."
N: In "Peter's Quotations," by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.
K: Letter, 1900.
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