"In the olden days, everybody sang. You were……" — Leonard Bernstein
"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."
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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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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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Einstein said that the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. So why do so many of us…
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More Cultured Quotes
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
— Annie Besant
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second…
— Samuel Butler
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Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard…
— Adolf Hitler
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It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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So many gay jokes tonight about (James) Franco. Apparently if you're clean, well dressed and mildly cultured, you're super gay…
— Aziz Ansari
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It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always…
— Beryl Markham
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Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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I have a problem with the new cooks: you all are more cultured, you cook better....but you're lazier.
— Unknown Author
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
— Zac Posen
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I'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.
— Thom Yorke
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