Quotes of Leonard Bernstein - somelinesforyou

“ Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a statue of a critic. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ Music… can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ Time is the cruelest teacher; first she gives the test, then teaches the lesson. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ Music … can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn... as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition - that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ”

- Leonard Bernstein

“ A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ”

- Leonard Bernstein
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