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Nadia Boulanger Quotes

«Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so»
Author: Nadia Boulanger | Keywords: take up
«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.»
Author: Nadia Boulanger | About: Children | Keywords: bring out, whims
«Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.»
Author: Nadia Boulanger | About: Life | Keywords: cleaning, denied, windows
«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.»
Author: Nadia Boulanger | About: Heart, Knowledge, Personality | Keywords: by heart
«A great work of art is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty»
Author: Nadia Boulanger | About: Liberty, Work | Keywords: combination, work of art
«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.»
«The essential [conditions] of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.»
«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.»
«Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.»