Pierre Boulez Quotes

In business, in the music world, people know that I can be very friendly and warm but that, after a certain moment, the business is closed. I like to be alone: in order to concentrate on my work, the social life does not exist. It has never existed for me, really. I have chosen instead the working life because I prefer that.

Pierre Boulez

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeWorkBusinessMusicAloneMe

There is something about a phony that creeps me out so much.

Jennifer Coolidge

MeOutSomethingPhonyMuchAbout

Radio was my friend after 'Jack & Diane' and 'Hurts So Good.'

John Mellencamp

GoodFriendRadioMy FriendHurts

Cirque du Soleil distinguished itself by being a circus with no animals. Before then, circus was partly about showing how man can tame other species.

Robert Lepage

ManAnimalsCircusBeingHowBefore

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.

Angela Davis

GlobalizationResultLaborMovement

Anyone can lose a fight. That doesn't bother me. But the shame that comes afterwards is unbearable.

Tony Bellew

FightMeLoseShameBotherAnyone

I think Donald knows climate change is a serious threat - but he only cares about protecting his luxury coastal properties, not the rest of America. Observing his actions as they relate to his business interests offers the best insight into the man behind the bluster.

Tom Steyer

ChangeBusinessBestManRestThink

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

Robert Benchley

FunnyYouWhyOutCoatWet

I have never limited myself by focusing much on being a 'normal' teenager.

Mikaela Shiffrin

MyselfNeverNormalBeingMuch

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

Milan Kundera

SituationHumanQuestionExistence

I like crime thrillers. I like heist movies.

Jason Statham

MoviesCrimeLikeThrillers

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

Djuna Barnes

GreatTimePastYouthForwardEnd

I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.

Dr. Dre

MusicMeStopNeverAirLike

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