It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once. — 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
Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic. — 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
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
Einstein said that the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. So why do so many of us try to… — 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
Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace… — 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
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
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. — 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
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
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
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 Image
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 Image
Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
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 Image
Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
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 Image
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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