Pierre Boulez Quotes

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Composing is a constant urge – it never stops. But it's organic, like a seed growing inside. Sometimes it has to wait, you must water it, trim it.

Pierre Boulez

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

Pierre Boulez

Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.

Pierre Boulez

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

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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez

Born: March 26, 1925

Died: January 5, 2016 (aged 90)

Bio: Pierre Boulez was a French composer, conductor, writer and pianist. He was also the founder and director of the Paris-based Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique.

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