Music Quote by Nadia Boulanger Download Open image “[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes!” — Nadia Boulanger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Music Notes
When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area… — Kiri Te Kanawa Copy Share Image
“Crystalline, chromatic scales converging and diverging into endless series; and synthetic harmony of the formulae of Taylor and McLauren, wholesome, square, and massive like… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combination of these five give rise to more melodies that can ever be heard.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies. — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
“From the first note I knew it was different from anything I had ever heard… It began simply, but with an arresting phrase, so… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
“Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“Still the music, the deep slow melody, the high and broken counterpoint, as if the mountains themselves had become the score, as if the… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“He knew that the very memory of the piano falsified still further the perspective in which he saw the elements of music, that the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
A great work of art is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift. — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it. — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude is accompanied… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them. — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone. — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
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When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I'm at the edge of the world, Where do I go from here? Do I disappear? Edge of the world, Should I sink or… — Bring Me The Horizon Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of people come out of Carol City, but I had this distinct vision for Carol City, just me coming out… — Denzel Curry Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I want people to hear my lyrics and my melodies and say, 'That dude's in pain.' — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
I make dance music because I love to dance. But I want to think at the same time. — Stromae Copy Share Image