You know what I think about metronome marks: they’re right for a single bar, like “roses, with a morning life”. Only there are “those” who don’t hear music and who take these marks as authority to hear it still less! But do what you please.
F. Lesure & N. Nichols (ed.), Debussy Letters, London, Faber, 1987, p. 305
— Debussy, Letter to Jacques Durand of 9 October 1915
Debussy on Metronome markings
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