French Composers Quotes

Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.

My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French.

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.

I've always loved French music. My parents adored it; my father played it on the piano.

I just started studying opera - very, very much as hobby - and for some reason I've been gravitating toward French composers, like a lot of Debussy and Faure. I find it a really sinuous and spooky language to sing in.

I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.

I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.

The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.