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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.

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

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Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.

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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.

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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'.

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Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
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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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