Pierre Boulez Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal”
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“The function of pop music is to be consumed.”
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“[A]ny 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.”
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“The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.”
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“Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.”
-- Pierre BoulezSource : "Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship". Book by Pierre Boulez, 1991.
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“All art of the past must be destroyed.”
-- Pierre BoulezSource : "Remembering French Composer, Conductor And Musical Provocateur Pierre Boulez". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 6, 2016.
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“I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.”
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“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 BoulezSource : Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.143, Harvard University Press
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“We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.”
-- Pierre BoulezSource : Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.482, Harvard University Press
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“I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.”
-- Pierre BoulezSource : Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.481, Harvard University Press
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“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 BoulezSource : "Boulez in his own words" by Claire Kohda Hazelton, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2015.
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“Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.”
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