Claude Debussy Age Quotations

The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.

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.