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Nadia Boulanger Quotes

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Without discipline, there can be no freedom  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) 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 to love what is difficult.  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) Music was not invented by the composer, but found  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) There is nothing boring in life except ourselves  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 to love what is difficult  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) It is easier to analyze a work in its form, in its evolution, than simply to love it with all the living forces of our heart. It is easier to define its peculiarities and its details than to draw out of it its emotion, its thought  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) 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 we have no personality  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one’s own gift  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) 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 where I don’t think sex plays much part  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) 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 serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) 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 of the harmonic series  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes) Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry  (Nadia Boulanger Quotes)