I said if I ever conducted, I would always give myself the best chance to succeed - though sometimes, despite everything, you still fail. Pierre Boulez More Quotes by Pierre Boulez More Quotes From Pierre Boulez Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, Pierre Boulez labyrinth music discovery Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch. Pierre Boulez musician useless needs It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed. Pierre Boulez doe past art For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin. Pierre Boulez coffins curious curiosity More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it. Pierre Boulez delirium organize order The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. Pierre Boulez aim music-is feelings Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. Pierre Boulez revolution politics political 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'. Pierre Boulez musical technique development Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary. Pierre Boulez unforeseen creation made I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed. Pierre Boulez moustache enough add We have to fight the past to survive. Pierre Boulez fighting past Music should be a collective magic and hysteria. Pierre Boulez hysteria magic should We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music. Pierre Boulez irreverence spirit needs All art of the past must be destroyed. Pierre Boulez destroyed past art The function of pop music is to be consumed. Pierre Boulez function pops music I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography. Pierre Boulez composer biographies firsts Conducting is more difficult than playing a single instrument. You have to know the culture, to know the score, and to project what you want to hear. Some conductors are well prepared but cannot transmit their ideas to an orchestra, and others are good communicators but have nothing to transmit because they are not absorbed enough in the score. Pierre Boulez good you culture ideas 'Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta' is a kind of expansion of chamber music. Pierre Boulez strings expansion music kind I wanted contemporary music to be treated the same as the traditional repertoire - performed regularly by people who knew each other and the music. That is the way you convince an audience. Pierre Boulez you music people way The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to correct it. Pierre Boulez know you difficult problem
