All Leonard Bernstein Quotes
- This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. Beautifully
- 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,… Better
- To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. Achieve
- 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… Artist
- Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. Communicate
- I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. Composer
- 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. Cultured
- Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. Communication
- From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining. Brightens
- The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle. Difficult
- I believe that from the earth emerges a musical poetry that is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause… Believe
- Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff Bluff
- Einstein said that the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty… Beautiful
- Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. Communicate
- Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and… Active
- Life without music is unthinkable. Life
- A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers. Answer
- Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution… Beat
- I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it . Day
- You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten… Certain
- Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from… Ball
- I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change. Believe
- It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once. Accidentally
- Which of my Jewish roots do I follow? Follow
- Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which… Action