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

All art of the past must be destroyed.

- Pierre Boulez

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

- Pierre Boulez

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

- Pierre Boulez

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

- Pierre Boulez

We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.

- Pierre Boulez

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

- Pierre Boulez

The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.

- Pierre Boulez

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

- Pierre Boulez