Is It Not Our Duty To Find

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.

People Come To Music To Seek Oblivion: Is That Not Also A Form Of Deception?

When Asked By A Grumpily Puzzled Professor What "rules" He Followed, Debussy Is Said To Have Retorted, Mon Plaisir "whatever I Please" And He Further Claimed That More Was To Be Gained By Watching The Sun Rise Than By Listening To The Pastoral Symphony. Although Such Remarks Were Intended To Shock, They Contain A Core Of Debussyan Verity.

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.

Claude Debussy Was A Rare Phenomenon A Composer Profoundly And Subversively Revolutionary.