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Boulez: Let us demand more from ourselves!
If you want to have a more interesting life, you will make some effort. It’s about the organization of one’s life. I am still shocked that so many people are not more creative, by which I mean more demanding of themselves.
The main question we need to ask ourselves is: Do I try to be necessary to the evolution of language? Do I try to be original? And being original means using the tools necessary to be original, not just having the desire to be original.
Mallarmé chastised Degas for writing poems; he said, “You can’t just have an idea that you want to write poems. Poems are made out of words.”
From an interview with P. Boulez, published by the The New York Times, here edited by MUSICON
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