"We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music."

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Source : Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.482, Harvard University Press

Pierre Boulez

#Irreverence Quotes #Needs Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“(The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years.”
“Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.”
“St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.”
“I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.”
“...Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth.”
“The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.”
“I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it.”
“I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and thats really motivating.”

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