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  1. Tracks
  2. The Art of Noise
  3. The Seduction of Claude Debussy
  4. The Holy Egoism of Genius

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The Art of Noise

The Holy Egoism of Genius

Release date: 28th June 1999

From The Seduction of Claude Debussy
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"The Holy Egoism of Genius" is a track by The Art of Noise, from the album The Seduction of Claude Debussy, released 28th June 1999. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

The Holy Egoism of Genius

Debussy didn't believe in God

He didn't believe in the Establishment

He didn't believe in bourgeois convention

He didn't believe in Beethoven or Wagner, he believed in Debussy

Debussy understood that a work of art or an effort to create beauty was always regarded by some people as a personal attack

He hated to appear in public

Hated to conduct

Hated to play the piano at concerts

He preferred cats to people

No one was ever sure whether the spite with which Debussy armed his volatile sensibilities were activated by a savage insensitivity or by the holy egoism of genius

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Track details

From The Seduction of Claude Debussy

1999
Album
The Seduction of Claude Debussy
The Seduction of Claude Debussy
The Art of Noise
Release year
1999
  1. —Dreaming in Colour
  2. —Approximate Mood Swing No: 2
  3. —Born on a Sunday
  4. —Il Pleure (At the Turn of the Century)
  5. —Continued In Colour
  6. —La Flûte De Pan
  7. —On Being Blue
  8. —Pause
  9. —Metaforce
  10. —Metaphor On The Floor
  11. —Out Of This World (Version 138)
  12. —Rapt: In The Evening Air
  13. —The Holy Egoism of Genius

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Credits

Writer
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Producer
Trevor Horn
Bass
Jamie Muhoberac
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Ramon Stagnaro
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