Biographies Quote by Pierre Boulez Download Open image “I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.” — Pierre Boulez ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biographies Composer Firsts History Inspirational
As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
To be a composer, you have to be a die-hard music lover - which I am. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. — Orson Welles 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
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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