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By AnonymPierre Boulez
All art of the past must be destroyed.
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By AnonymPierre 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.
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By AnonymPierre Boulez
Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.
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By AnonymPierre Boulez
For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.
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By AnonymPierre Boulez
I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.
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By AnonymPierre Boulez
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.
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By AnonymPierre Boulez
More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it.
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By AnonymPierre Boulez
Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal
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By AnonymPierre Boulez
Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.
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By AnonymPierre Boulez
Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
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By AnonymPierre Boulez
The function of pop music is to be consumed.
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By AnonymPierre Boulez
We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.
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By AnonymPierre 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'.
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By AnonymPierre Boulez
(From Boulez, an authorized biography by Joan Peyser) At the chapel door he [a priest associated with a school Boulez attended] asked me if what he had been told was true: that Boulez no longer believed in God. I said it was...
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