Has beens Quote by Leonard Bernstein

With Bernstein, because we wound up always working music first, it was where I really feel I learned how to write lyrics as a…

— Stephen Schwartz

When we work on a piece of music, we'll often read the biographies of the composer and learn about what was going on historically…

— Helene Grimaud

Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to…

— Lee Konitz

I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.

— Lucy Dacus

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art…

— George Crumb

I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.

— Bruce Springsteen

As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for…

— Samuel Johnson

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

— Pepe Romero

Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this…

— Louise Talma

Secrets don't stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.

— Jill Abramson

Mozart 's music is very mysterious.

— Walter J. Turner

Composers are always going back to the past.

— Anne Dudley