Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as it is today, or to the actual state that we have reached in the evolution of musical technique, which is increasingly concerned with the investigation of a relative world, a permanent 'discovering' rather like the state of 'permanent revolution'.
I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed. - Pierre Boulez
I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.
- Pierre Boulez
For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin. - Pierre Boulez
For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.
All art of the past must be destroyed. - Pierre Boulez
All art of the past must be destroyed.
Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal - Pierre Boulez
Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal
Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole… - Pierre Boulez
Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole…
Music should be a collective magic and hysteria. - Pierre Boulez
Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.
The function of pop music is to be consumed. - Pierre Boulez
The function of pop music is to be consumed.
Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary. - Pierre Boulez
Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.
The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. - Pierre Boulez
The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.
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