Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ...… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it . — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
I believe that from the earth emerges a musical poetry that is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share
I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share
I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share
Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation,… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share
Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share
From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share
Einstein said that the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. So why do so many of us try to explain the… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share
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… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share
“We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good We'll do the best we know. We'll build our house and chop our wood And make our… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share
![“What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul.” quote by Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4ca/leonard-bernstein-10475_armstrong_what-louis-armstrong-does-is-real-and-tr_3005159.jpg)
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