The Century Of Aeroplanes Deserves Its Own

Extreme Complication Is Contrary To Art.

On Those Who Overanalyze His Music: When You Tear The Wings Off A Butterfly, It Is No Longer A Butterfly

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.

If I Am Not Making Music, I Have No Reason For Existing.

When Claude Debussy Studied At The Paris Conservatory From Age Ten To Age Twenty-two, Many Considered Him A Rebel Because Of His Treatment Of Dissonance And His Disdain For The Established Forms. He Reputedly Turned To A Fellow Student During A Performance Of Beethoven With The Words, "let's Go. He's Starting To Develop.