People see me as a theoretician, but my music is also seductive, even spiritual. Pierre Boulez More Quotes by Pierre Boulez More Quotes From Pierre Boulez Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, Pierre Boulez labyrinthmusicdiscovery 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 musicianuselessneeds 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 doepastart For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin. Pierre Boulez coffinscuriouscuriosity More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it. Pierre Boulez deliriumorganizeorder The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. Pierre Boulez aimmusic-isfeelings Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. Pierre Boulez revolutionpoliticspolitical 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 musicaltechniquedevelopment Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary. Pierre Boulez unforeseencreationmade I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed. Pierre Boulez moustacheenoughadd We have to fight the past to survive. Pierre Boulez fightingpast Music should be a collective magic and hysteria. Pierre Boulez hysteriamagicshould We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music. Pierre Boulez irreverencespiritneeds All art of the past must be destroyed. Pierre Boulez destroyedpastart The function of pop music is to be consumed. Pierre Boulez functionpopsmusic I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography. Pierre Boulez composerbiographiesfirsts 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 goodyoucultureideas 'Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta' is a kind of expansion of chamber music. Pierre Boulez stringsexpansionmusickind 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 youmusicpeopleway 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 bestmyselfyousometimes
