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Composer Quotes by Leonard Bernstein
- I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
- Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.
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- I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. — Leonard Bernstein
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- I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it. — Sarah Brightman
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