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“We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.”

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Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez, born on March 26, 1925 in France, was a renowned composer and conductor. His unique musical style had a profound impact on the development of modern music. more

“Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as it is today, or to the actual state that we have reached in the evolution of musical technique, which is increasingly concerned with the investigation of a relative world, a permanent 'discovering' rather like the state of 'permanent revolution'.”

World States Seems Today Revolution Development Evolution Concerned Musical Technique Permanent Appropriate Relative Discovering Investigation

Book:Orientations: Collected Writings

Source: Orientations: Collected Writings

“I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.”

Firsts Composer Biographies

Author:Pierre Boulez

“All art of the past must be destroyed.”

Art Past Destroyed

Author:Pierre Boulez

“Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.”

Made Creation Unforeseen

Author:Pierre Boulez

“For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.”

Years Children Education Power Fantasy Learning Highest Educational Children Learning Illustrators Impressionable

Author:Arthur Rackham

“Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.”

Hours Paint Boxes Sunny Sundials

Author:Arthur Rackham

“I adore war. It is like a big picnic but without the objectivelessness of a picnic. I have never been more well or more happy.”

Wells War Bigs Adore Picnics

Author:Julian Grenfell

“And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is dead, who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase.”

Light Life Is Dies Fighting Increase Strive Colour Warmth Evermore

Author:Julian Grenfell

“Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!”

Writing Wind Army Blow Command

Book:Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)

“The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge) Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.”

Democracy Privilege Broke Bridges Reign Champagne

Author:Hilaire Belloc

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