That I mentioned in class but couldn't quite remember:
I wanted to eradicate from my vocabulary absolutely every trace of the conventional, whether it concerned figures and phrases, or development and form; I then wanted gradually, element after element, to win back the various stages of the compositional process, in such a manner that a perfectly new synthesis might arise, a synthesis that would not be corrupted from the very outset by foreign bodies—stylistic reminiscences in particular. (Boulez 1986a, 61)
It is from this wikipedia entry on one of his compositions, a series called Structures:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structures_(Boulez)
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