It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.
~ Nadia Boulanger
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
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.
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.
