I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

- Pierre Boulez

All art of the past must be destroyed.

- Pierre Boulez

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal

- 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…

- Pierre Boulez

Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.

- Pierre Boulez

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

- Pierre Boulez

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

- Pierre Boulez

I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.

- Pierre Boulez

We have to fight the past to survive.

- Pierre Boulez