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Biography - Claude Debussy:

French composer.
Born: 1862 - Died: 1918
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Music is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
La musique est une mathématique mystérieuse dont les éléments participent de l'infini.

German
Musik ist ein mysteriöser mathematischer Prozess, dessen Element Teil der Unendlichkeit sind.




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Quotes for: music


Quotes

Quotes about music:


Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.





Without music, life would be a mistake.





Music before all else.





Architecture in general is frozen music.





Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.





If music be the food of love, play on.











Quotes for: Infinity


Quotes

Quotes for: Infinity


To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.






Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.





One thought, fills immensity.





Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.





The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.





An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.











Quotes

Claude Debussy also said...


Art is the most beautiful of all lies.





I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.





Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.





Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.












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