| 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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| 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 |
| 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 Adages |
| I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man’s future. Leonard Bernstein Sayings |
| I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. Leonard Bernstein Popular 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. To know music. 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 Popular 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 Popular Quotes |
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| Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. Leonard Bernstein |
| Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. Leonard Bernstein Popular Quotes |
| Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. Leonard Bernstein |
| Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. Leonard Bernstein Popular Quotes |
| The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. Leonard Bernstein Popular 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 |
| 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 |
| The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm—that’s a problem. And if we have no second fiddle, we have no harmony. Leonard Bernstein |
| This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. Leonard Bernstein |
| To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. Leonard Bernstein Quotations |
When the thunder rumbles,
"Now the age of gold is dead."
When the dreams we've clung to
Trying to stay young,
Have left us parched and old instead.
When my courage crumbles,
When I feel confused and frail,
When my spirit falters on decaying altars
And my illusions fail --
I go on right then.
I go on again.
I go on to say I will celebrate another day.
I go on.
If tomorrow tumbles
And everything I love is gone,
I will face regret all my days, and yet
I will still go on. Leonard Bernstein |
| [It was] an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition-that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else. Leonard Bernstein |
