[Debussy’s] opinion, of course, was that Wagner was a great composer but a dangerous model. “The time is near,”…”when this man will take a sweet revenge on the Parisians, and we will suffer as much, because he will be one of those fortresses the public likes to erect against every new aesthetic. And since, in all sincerity, we won’t be able to call it bad, we’ll just have to keep quiet.”

— Debussy by Stephen Walsh (Page 89)