Nadia Boulanger Quotes

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• Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him…
• Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
• The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
• A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
• I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job…
• The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals…
• Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because…
• Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope…
• To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.
• The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit…
• The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a…
• It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.
• Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.
• A great work of art is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty

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