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The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance. — Bertrand Russell

Without discipline, there can be no freedom. — Nadia Boulanger

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them. — Nadia Boulanger

Forgiveness," said Mary Rommely, "is a gift of high value. Yet its cost nothing. — Betty Smith

I've really learned to appreciate the magic of challenging yourself. Seeing yourself somewhere new. There's a whole world out there. — Stacie Hammond

No matter how painful your past has been, you have made it through. — Iyanla Vanzant

So far as musical pedagogy is concerned -
And by extension of musical creation -
Nadia Boulanger is the most influential person who ever lived — Ned Rorem

Music was not invented by the composer, but found. — Nadia Boulanger

Few rich men own their property. The property owns them. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Nothing is better than music... it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for. — Nadia Boulanger

I did not come into the world to prove anything. I came into the world to love everyone and everything. — Sri Chinmoy

Always remember your days are blessed. You may know how to profit from them or you may not, but they are blessed. — Nadia Boulanger

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

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed. — Nadia Boulanger

I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't. — Don Cheadle

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains. — Nadia Boulanger

Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy. — Nadia Boulanger

Loving well is the goal of the Christian life. — Peter Scazzero

But I've become completely obsessed with taking photos on my iPhone. I have like 400 apps. — Debra Messing

Oh, cold world
I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Natalie Greer is as spoiled as a pan of milk set out in the sun. — Beverly Jenkins

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

There is nothing boring in life except ourselves. — Nadia Boulanger

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. — Nadia Boulanger

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

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. — Nadia Boulanger

A walk through an old graveyard shows our ancestors often had more dead children than we have live ones. — P. J. O'Rourke

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success. — Thomas A. Edison

You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone. — 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

Faith to me is having absolute certainty that God is in control of my life and that He has my best interests at heart. — Dan Ellis

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth. — Nadia Boulanger

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. - Nadia Boulanger — David Allen

Broken wings don't mend that way; the way you think broken wings do. Once that wing has taken time to mend; that bird has forgotten how to fly — S.L. Northey

It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift. — Nadia Boulanger

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so. — Nadia Boulanger

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot. — Nadia Boulanger

[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes! — Nadia Boulanger