Pierre Boulez

"[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."

"Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary."

"Stupid, stupid, stupid!"

"Ja, es gibt einen inneren Widerspruch zwischen dem Vokabular, das immer Variation verlangt, und einer Technik, die Wiederholung verbietet. Es ist interessant zu sehen, welche Probleme Schönberg gehabt hat und wie er versuchte, zur tonalen Welt zurückzukommen."