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Leonard Bernstein Quotes

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To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) I can’t live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart’s - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages.  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all else, including natural scenery, organized piety and nationalistic superstructures. One human figure on the slope of a mountain can make the mountain disappear for me, one person fighting for truth can disqualify for me the entire system which had dispensed it  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it’s a whole new social revolution - the 60’s comes from it  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) From New Year’s on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) Callas? She was pure electricity  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) If you’re a good composer, you steal good steals  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) I believe that man’s noblest endowment is his capacity to change  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) Life without music is unthinkable  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) I can’t live one day without hearing music, playing it, studying it, or thinking about it  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) Einstein said that the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) The trouble with you and me, ned, is that we want everyone in the world to personally love us, and of course that’s impossible; you just don’t meet everyone in the world  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) 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 Quotes) In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) I’m not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes) The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world  (Leonard Bernstein Quotes)
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