Approach Quote by 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 long.”

Leonard Bernstein

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I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

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Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

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Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

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From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

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Einstein said that the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. So why do so many of us try to explain the…

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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…

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...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves.

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I don't have any particular method, my approach is very simple. I try to understand the emotional graph of the character.

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Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just…

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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

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