Quotes of Leonard Bernstein

“ 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

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Inspiration

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

- Leonard Bernstein

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Hard

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

- Leonard Bernstein

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Music

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

- Leonard Bernstein

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Music

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

- Leonard Bernstein

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Time

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

- Leonard Bernstein

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Funny Music

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

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Humor

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

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Administrator

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

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Band

“ 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. ”

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Breathe

“ 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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Boundless

“ 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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Bright

“ 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. ”

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Comprehensive

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

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Conductor

“ 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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Conflict

“ 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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Contend

“ 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. ”

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Charitable

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

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Curious

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

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Communication

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

- Leonard Bernstein

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Communication

“ 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. ”

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Considerate

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

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Communicate

“ 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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Dispute

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

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Disclose

“ 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. ”

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Edge

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

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Engrossed

“ 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. ”

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Future

“ 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

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Familiarity

“ 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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Forward

“ 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. ”

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“ 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. ”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

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

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

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

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

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

“ 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. ”

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

“ 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. ”

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

“ 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. ”

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

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”