[on Richard Wagner] A Beautiful Sunset That

Music Is The Arithmetic Of Sounds As Optics Is The Geometry Of Light.

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.

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

The Age Of Automobiles And Aeroplanes Cannot Express Itself In The Same Manner As Did The Age Of The Diligence.

The Colour Of My Soul Is Iron-grey And Sad Bats Wheel About The Steeple Of My Dreams.