Do Not Allow The Accents In The

Works Of Art Make Rules But Rules Do Not Make Works Of Art.

The Music I Desire Must Be Supple Enough To Adapt Itself To The Lyrical Effusions Of The Soul And The Fantasy Of Dreams.

Beauty Must Appeal To The Senses, Must Provide Us With Immediate Enjoyment, Must Impress Us Or Insinuate Itself Into Us Without Any Effort On Our Part.

I Am More And More Convinced That Music Is Not, In Essence, A Thing Which Can Be Cast Into A Traditional And Fixed Form. It Is Made Up Of Colors And Rhythms.

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.