33 Quotes by Pierre Boulez

(From Boulez, an authorized biography by Joan Peyser)At the chapel door he [a priest associated with a school Boulez attended] asked me if what he had been told was true: that Boulez no longer believed in God. I said it was...

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

All art of the past must be destroyed.

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

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

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

I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

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

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.