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All the people with whom I was very close at one point in my life - Stockhausen, Berio, Ligeti, Nono, Bernd Alois Zimmermann - they are all gone.

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it.

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end,
full of new paths to discover,
where mystery remains eternal

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

I said if I ever conducted, I would always give myself the best chance to succeed - though sometimes, despite everything, you still fail.

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

People see me as a theoretician, but my music is also seductive, even spiritual.

We have to fight the past to survive.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.

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

I almost chose the career of an ethnomusicologist because I was so fascinated by that music. It gives a different feeling of time.

'Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta' is a kind of expansion of chamber music.

The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to correct it.

I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.