"Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the……" — 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."
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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 approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not…
— Margaret Atwood
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in…
— Sri Aurobindo
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I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's…
— Jensen Ackles
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is…
— Scott Adams
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Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to…
— Berenice Abbott
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There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate…
— Halle Berry
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I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said…
— Orlando Bloom
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I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I…
— Jo Brand
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