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Music expresses the motion of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
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As quoted in The Twentieth Century (1972) by Caroline Farrar Ware, p. 222
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Variant translation: Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

 

Claude Debussy

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