Pierre Boulez Quotes

I wanted contemporary music to be treated the same as the traditional repertoire - performed regularly by people who knew each other and the music. That is the way you convince an audience.

Pierre Boulez

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: March 26, 1925 - January 5, 2016

Topics

MusicPeopleYouWaySameAudience

I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.

Jerry Cantrell

PlayMoreNeverRhythmLeadBig

Most of my interests in terms of writing are dark, so it's discordant how much I try to lock into the vibe of wherever I'm at. Inhabiting the life of the imagination is the nature of survival strategy - you build yourself little worlds to enjoy.

John Darnielle

LifeNatureImaginationYourselfYou

We're living in our neoliberal, sort of late-stage capitalist culture where human beings are really like objects of production and consumption. We're on our screens all the time; we're kind of being sold at all the time.

Max Richter

TimeCultureKindLivingHuman

You don't want to be a one-trick pony. On a lot of Smiths songs, I used a pick or a plectrum, and for some of the slow songs, I used my thumbs and my fingers. That's why I love the bass - it's adaptable, and you can express yourself so well with it.

Andy Rourke

LoveYourselfSlowYouWantWhy

I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.

Angela Ahrendts

WorkHomeTodayGreatWomanPeople

You have to be hopeful that people will be more educated in how they buy things, and hopefully more luxury brands will start to think that way on a longer-term basis.

Stella McCartney

PeopleStartThinkLuxuryYouWay

A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.

Robbie Fowler

EndGoalMatterMarkGetOff

When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.

Rufus Wainwright

WorkMyselfDaySpaceThinkingReal

Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.

Michel Patini

WinYouLoseGamesSomeDraw

Feminism, as I see it, is not about counting women in key jobs.

Mona Eltahawy

WomenKeyFeminismSeeI SeeAbout

To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.

Joshua A. Norton

WarSurrenderDesireWillHereHe

Fundraising is very, very time-consuming.

Arlen Specter

WorkLightUncertaintyThinkLeave

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