나디아 불랑제
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.
Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
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.
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.
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
고희동
만사에 너그러움을 따르면 그 복(福)이 두터워진다.
파블로 카잘스
음악은 심장에게 아름답고, 시적인 것들을 말해주는 거룩한 것이다.
은퇴한다는 것은 죽음과 다름없다.
당신은 일해야만 한다 – 우리 모두 일을 해서 우리 자녀들에게 물려줄 세상의 가치를 만들어야 한다.
We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness a