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“As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.”

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Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger was a distinguished French composer and conductor, recognized as one of the most influential music educators of the 20th century. Her teaching methods and compositions have left a lasting impact on the musical world. more

“In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude is accompanied by a new hope between pity for ourselves - which makes us more indulgent and more understanding - and the certitude of finding something again, that which lives for ever in music.”

Stills Understanding Music Solitude Findings Pity Clarity Enchantment Certitude New Hope

Author:Nadia Boulanger

“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 for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.”

Done Hours Music Pure Limits Sweetness Diminish Lit Sorrowful Pettiness

Author: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.”

Ifs Done Taken Failing Trouble Succeed Success And Failure

Author:Nadia Boulanger

“Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.”

Truth Effects

Author:Nadia Boulanger

“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.”

Heart Form Force Emotion Evolution Easier Draws Details

Author:Nadia Boulanger

“Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy.”

Joy Order Satisfaction

Author:Nadia Boulanger

“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.”

Habit Tradition Evolve Repeats Adore Interrupted

Author:Nadia Boulanger

“Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.”

Pay Attention Pay Attention About Yourself Agitate

Author:Terry McMillan

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