Claude Debussy
I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naïve candour of a child. No doubt, this simple musical grammar will jar on some people. It is bound to offend the partisans of deceit and artifice. I foresee that and rejoice at it.

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  • Quoted in Léon Vallas, Claude Debussy: His Life and Works (1933) p.226.