Leonard Bernstein Quotes
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Leonard Bernstein Quotes & Sayings
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It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.
— Leonard Bernstein
Music ... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
— Leonard Bernstein
I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.
— Stephen Sondheim
The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.
— 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
Which of my Jewish roots do I follow?
— Leonard Bernstein
Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.
— Leonard Bernstein
The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.
— Leonard Bernstein
Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.
— Leonard Bernstein
When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.
— Leonard Bernstein
Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.
— Leonard Bernstein
Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.
— Leonard Bernstein
I hate you, Richard Wagner ... but I hate you on my knees.
— Leonard Bernstein
When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.
— Leonard Bernstein
The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.
— Leonard Bernstein
I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .
— Leonard Bernstein
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
— Leonard Bernstein
The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm
— Leonard Bernstein
Two things are necessary for great achievement: a plan and not quite enough time.
— Leonard Bernstein
It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.
— 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
This will be our reply to violence:to make music more intensely,
more beautifully,
more devotedly than ever before. — Leonard Bernstein
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
I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.
— Leonard Bernstein
Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years.
— Leonard Bernstein
Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.
— Leonard Bernstein
Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff
— Leonard Bernstein
From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
— Leonard Bernstein
I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
— Leonard Bernstein
Life without music is unthinkable.
— Leonard Bernstein
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
— Leonard Bernstein
To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.
— Leonard Bernstein
We can all shut-up and go back to our caves.
— Leonard Bernstein
I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.
— Leonard Bernstein
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
Success is all very well as long as you don't inhale.
— Leonard Bernstein
