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 Copy Share Image
For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin. — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For… — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
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… — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it. — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed. — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be… — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
