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“music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light”
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“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.”
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“People don't very much like things that are beautiful.. they are so far from their nasty little minds.”
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“How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.”
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“A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.”
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“Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind...”
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“There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.”
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“the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad
bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.”
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bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.”
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“Music is the space between the notes.”
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“But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself”
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“There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.”
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“Art is of absolutely no use to the masses”
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“There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.”
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“Art is the most beautiful of all lies”
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“Un artiste est par définition un homme habitué au rêve et qui vit parmi des fantômes.”
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“Proust is long-winded, precious, and a bit of an old woman”
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“Αν πρέπει να νικηθώ, άραγε εσύ θα είσαι ο νικητής μου;”
― Pelleas and Melisande: Libretto
― Pelleas and Melisande: Libretto
“The century of airplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.”
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“I love music passionately. And because I love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.”
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“La musique doit humblement chercher à faire plaisir, l'extrême complication est le contraire de l'art”
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