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It is easier to analyze a wor...

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.

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Nothing is better than music;...

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.

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To study music, we must learn...

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

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The history of harmony is the...

The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.

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Without order there can be no...

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

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It is so much easier to rest ...

It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine but profound habits of thought and feeling which govern our life, and by which we live so blissfully. This mental inertia is, perhaps, our greatest enemy. Insidiously it leads us to assume that we can renew our lives without renewing our habits.

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It is one thing to be gifted ...

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

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The art of music is so deep a...

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.

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Words created divergencies be...

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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It is nothing to succeed if o...

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.

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Never forget that your days a...

Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.

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I adore tradition. I cannot s...

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.

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As far as the execution is co...

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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Art is not emotion. Art is th...

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

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False notes can be forgiven, ...

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

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The great conductor is always...

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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Everything we know by heart e...

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.

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Loving a child doesn't mean g...

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.

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The essential conditions of e...

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

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I've been a woman for a littl...

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.

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....