Leonard Bernstein Quotes
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a...
Show MoreI'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.
Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly witho...
Show MoreThe gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all shar...
Show MoreInspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
Show MoreThis will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly t...
Show MoreTo achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies...
Show MoreThe point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art ...
Show MoreAny great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the exte...
Show MoreMusic . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies...
Show MoreThis will be our reply to violence:to make music more intensely,more beautifully,more devotedly than...
Show MoreMusic can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
