Pierre Boulez Quotes
- Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
- 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.
- I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.
- We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.
- 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…
- I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.
- All art of the past must be destroyed.
- Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.
- The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.