Pierre BoulezAll art of the past must be destroyed. ✨ Remembering French Composer, Conductor And Musical Provocateur Pierre Boulez. Fresh Air with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 6, 20… ▶363Time
Pierre BoulezRevolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.365Hope
Pierre BoulezWe need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music. ✨ Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). Orientations: Collected Writings, p.482, Harvard University Press3710Life
Pierre BoulezThe aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.315Time
Pierre BoulezIt is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed. ✨ Boulez in his own words by Claire Kohda Hazelton,… ▶337Time
Pierre BoulezCreation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary. ✨ Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship. Book by Pierre Boulez, 1991.272Reading
Pierre BoulezWhy 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 i… ▶272PoliticsThoughtTime
Pierre BoulezI suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed. ✨ Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). Orientations: Collected Writing… ▶131Reading
Pierre BoulezI shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.149Time
