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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.

People Don't Very Much Like Things That Are Beautiful - They Are So Far From Their Nasty Little Minds.

He Was The Incomparable Painter Of Mystery, Silence, And The Infinite, Of The Passing Cloud, And The Sunlit Shimmer Of The Waves-subleties Which None Before Him Had Been Capable Of Suggesting.

Composers Aren't Daring Enough. They're Afraid Of That Sacred Idol Called 'common Sense', Which Is The Most Dreadful Thing I Know - After All, It's No More Than A Religion Founded To Excuse The Ubiquity Of Imbeciles!

Anyone Who Calls My Music "impressionist" Is An Imbecile.