Koven Smith quoted Debussy by Stephen Walsh
A beautifully written and original biography of one of the greatest and most popular of …
All three pieces show that Debussy was not in rebellion against tonality, only against the rules by which it supposedly worked.
— Debussy by Stephen Walsh (Page 128)
Finding this book generally to be a bit more of a slog than I’d hoped, but there are periodically little revelatory bits like this.