Pierre Boulez Quotes

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.

I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.

Jon Anderson and I, we really liked a lot of classical music, and we wanted to get some orchestral arrangements going on 'Time And A Word.'

I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

I love doing concert music.

Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts.

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.

A symphony is no joke.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.

In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.