Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger
Juliette Nadia Boulangerwas a French composer, conductor, and teacher. She is notable for having taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century. She also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth16 September 1887
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
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[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes!
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[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.
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You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.
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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.
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The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his laughter and tears to himself. If they want to emerge, in spite of himself, then he must hide them or unleash them in someone else.
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Music was not invented by the composer, but found.
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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.
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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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False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.
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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.
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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.
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A great work of art is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.