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Pierre Boulez Biography

Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez CBE (French: [pjɛʁ bu.lɛːz]; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor, writer and founder of institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of the post-war classical music world.

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I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.

Biographies, Biography, Composer, Firsts, History

More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it.

Create, Delirium, Effectively, Order, Organize

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

Function, Music, Pop, Pops

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

Curiosity, Coffins, Curious, Life, Coffin

The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.

Aim, Feelings, Music, Music Is

[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.

Dodecaphonic, Musician, Necessity, Needs, Say, Useless

Add, Enough, Lisa, Moustache, Suggested

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

Collective, Hysteria, Magic, Should

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Celebrated, Longer, Political, Politics, Revolution, Revolutions

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.

Art, Doe, Enough, Kill, Mona, Past

Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.

Creation, Exists, Made, Necessary, Unforeseen

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

Music, Discovery, Labyrinth, Eternal, Mystery

All art of the past must be destroyed.

Art, Destroyed, Past

We have to fight the past to survive.

Fight, Fighting, Past, Survive

We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.

Irreverence, Music, Needs, Restore, Spirit

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'.

Increasingly, Investigation, Musical, Reached, Revolution, Technique

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