Pierre Boulez famous quotes

03-25-2025

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal
-- Pierre Boulez

#Labyrinth #Path #Mystery
The function of pop music is to be consumed.
-- Pierre Boulez

#Music #Function #Pops
[A]ny 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

#Musician #Needs #Useless
The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.
-- Pierre Boulez

#Feelings #Music Is #Aim
Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.
-- Pierre Boulez

#Creation #Made
All art of the past must be destroyed.
-- Pierre Boulez

#Art #Past
I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.
-- Pierre Boulez

#Firsts #Biographies #Composer
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'.
-- Pierre Boulez

#Musical #Development #World
We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.
-- Pierre Boulez

#Irreverence #Needs #Spirit
I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.
-- Pierre Boulez

#Add #Moustache #Enough
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.
-- Pierre Boulez

#Art #Past #Doe
Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
-- Pierre Boulez

#Political #Revolution #Dangerous

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