"Any great art work … revives and readapts……" — Leonard Bernstein
"Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air."
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36 Quotes by Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein has 36 quotes on this site.
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This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more…
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To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
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The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies…
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Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
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I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
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In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of…
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Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
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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…
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The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.
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I believe that from the earth emerges a musical poetry that is by the nature of its sources tonal. I…
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Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about…
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic…
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A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
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