Pierre Boulez
French composer and conductor of contemporary classical music.
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Proceeding from the simple fact that I think, I tried to find out how a musical language could be built from scratch.
The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. It is not a vessel into which the composer distills his soul drop by drop, but a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal.
[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.
Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.
The most elegant way of solving the opera problem would be to blow up the opera houses.
Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
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