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.
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. - Nadia Boulanger
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
- Nadia Boulanger
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
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.
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 … - Nadia Boulanger
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 …
Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. - Nadia Boulanger
Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy. - Nadia Boulanger
Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy.
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them. - Nadia Boulanger
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.
Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth. - Nadia Boulanger
Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.
Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed. - Nadia Boulanger
Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.
The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive in… - Nadia Boulanger
The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive in…
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