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> [The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-bernstein/the-most-difficult-instrument-to-play-in-the-orchestra-is-second/)

[Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-bernstein/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a77/leonard-bernstein-10475_difficult_the-most-difficult-instrument-to-play-in_1109009.jpg)

> [The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-bernstein/the-second-fiddle-i-can-get-plenty-of-first-violinists-but-to-find/)

[Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-bernstein/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b5/leonard-bernstein-10475_enthusiasm_the-second-fiddle-i-can-get-plenty-of-fi_3018820.jpg)

## Other authors on Fiddle

## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-bernstein/a-liberal-is-a-man-or-a-woman-or-a-child-who-looks-forward-to-a/)

[Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-bernstein/)

> [I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-bernstein/i-think-it-is-time-we-learned-the-lesson-of-our-century-that-the/)

[Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-bernstein/)

> [Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-bernstein/conducting-is-like-making-love-to-a-hundred-people-at-the-same-time/)

[Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-bernstein/)

> [I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-bernstein/i-m-no-longer-quite-sure-what-the-question-is-but-i-do-know-that-the/)

[Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-bernstein/)

> [Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-bernstein/our-most-emotionally-active-life-is-lived-in-our-dreams-and-our-cells/)

[Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-bernstein/)

> [Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-bernstein/music-can-name-the-unnameable-and-communicate-the-unknowable/)

[Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-bernstein/)

> [Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-bernstein/any-asshole-can-write-a-tone-row-it-takes-a-composer-to-write-a-tune/)

[Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-bernstein/)

> [From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-bernstein/from-new-year-s-on-the-outlook-brightens-good-humor-lost-in-a-mood-of/)

[Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-bernstein/)

> [Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-bernstein/music-because-of-its-specific-and-far-reaching-metaphorical-powers/)

[Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-bernstein/)

> [Einstein said that the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. So why do so many of us try to explain the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-bernstein/einstein-said-that-the-most-beautiful-experience-we-can-have-is-the/)

[Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-bernstein/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-bernstein/when-the-thunder-rumbles-now-the-age-of-gold-is-dead-when-the-dreams/)

[Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-bernstein/inspiration-is-wonderful-when-it-happens-but-the-writer-must-develop/)

[Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-bernstein/)

> [...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-bernstein/we-can-all-shut-up-and-go-back-to-our-caves/)

[Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-bernstein/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-bernstein/we-re-neither-pure-nor-wise-nor-good-we-ll-do-the-best-we-know-we-ll/)

[Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-bernstein/)

> [I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-bernstein/i-have-two-answers-to-everything-and-one-answer-to-nothing/)

[Leonard Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-bernstein/)

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