Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez (IPA: [pjɛʁ bulɛz]) (March 26, 1925 – January 5, 2016) was a French composer and conductor of contemporary classical music.

Quotes

 * [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.
 * Emphasis in the original. From "Eventuellement..." (1952), translated as "Possibly..." in Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, p. 113. ISBN 0193112108


 * Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.
 * From "Éventuellement..." (1952), translated as "Possibly..." in Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, p. 133 ISBN 0193112108


 * Stupid, stupid, stupid!
 * On the music of Giuseppe Verdi. Quoted in Boulez: Composer, Conductor, Enigma by Joan Peyser, New York: Schirmer Books, 1976.