Music Is The Arithmetic Of

It Is Necessary To Abandon Yourself Completely, And Let The Music Do As It Will With You. All People Come To Music To Seek Oblivion.

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

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.

How Much Has To Be Explored And Discarded Before Reaching The Naked Flesh Of Feeling.

If We Look At The Works Of Js Bach ... On Each Page We Discover Things Which We Thought Were Born Only Yesterday, From Delightful Arabesques To An Overflowing Of Religious Feeling Greater Than Anything We Have Since Discovered.