33 Quotes by Pierre Boulez

The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to correct it.

All the people with whom I was very close at one point in my life - Stockhausen, Berio, Ligeti, Nono, Bernd Alois Zimmermann - they are all gone.

I said if I ever conducted, I would always give myself the best chance to succeed - though sometimes, despite everything, you still fail.

I almost chose the career of an ethnomusicologist because I was so fascinated by that music. It gives a different feeling of time.

I always admired very much the virtuosity in Strauss because, really, he's a master of using the orchestra. And I like virtuosity, I must say, even if the taste of the music is not always mine.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.