Pierre Boulez Quotes

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.

Pierre Boulez

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicSayOrchestraMasterTaste

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

Jerry Cantrell

MusicBeautifulUglyKindSomething

The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?

Robert McKee

LifeBalanceTalkingRealizeOut

The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves.

Meryl Streep

PeopleBetterPossibilitiesPowerful

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

John Updike

TruthWomanManManifestPrivacy

People had this idea about becoming rock stars packing stadiums instead of having the goal of becoming what musicians used to be in terms of how they would perform and connect people.

Amanda Palmer

StarsPeopleMusiciansGoalRock

You can get the dart player out of the pub, but you can't get the pub out of the dart player.

Sid Waddell

YouOutGetPubPlayerDart

Han Solo is more interesting than Superman because he's flawed. Superman's flaw is kryptonite, and that's it. He can make time go backwards, for God's sake, but with Han Solo or Indiana Jones, there's a bit of humanity there.

Rupert Friend

GodTimeInterestingHumanityGo

Do you know I keep a picture of Hattie McDaniel in my closet in an 8-by-10 frame?

Mo'Nique

PictureYouKnowFrameKeepCloset

Portraying Alex Summers, I want to look as athletic as his character is in the comics.

Lucas Till

CharacterLookWantComicsAthletic

'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Louisa May Alcott

FriendVocabularyCharmingStayWord

I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.

Jason Calacanis

MoneyMy OwnYouTubeNeedOwn

For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.

Dolores O'Riordan

WorkMeSingingFatYouPig

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