"All art of the past must be destroyed."

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Source : "Remembering French Composer, Conductor And Musical Provocateur Pierre Boulez". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 6, 2016.

Pierre Boulez

#Art Quotes #Past Quotes

“I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.”
“Besides, you think I'm not used to hurting? For me, it's home sweet home, my brother.”
“Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.”
“Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should have been waged. Yet the American Right is forever trying to pathologise anger as something menacing and abnormal, dismissing war opponents as hateful and, in the latest slur, wild-eyed. This is much harder to do when victims of wars begin to speak for themselves: no one questions the wildness in the eyes of a mother or father who has just lost a son or daughter, or the fury of a soldier who knows that he is being asked to kill, and to die, needlessly.”
“We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.”
“Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on a boy, but the boyalways rose again afterwards.”
“It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.”

Source : FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016
“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”

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