"It would be nice to hear someone accidentally……" — Leonard Bernstein
"It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once."
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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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In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of…
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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There's more to be learned here [St. Andrews] about course design than anywhere. Collection bunkers, false fronts, bump shots. The…
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Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front…
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If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say,…
— Rachel McAdams
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For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where…
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Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?
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Ever heard the story about a cat that accidentally caught a mouse in his sleep? Me neither
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Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting…
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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For me songwriting is very...it's almost like an accident. 'Oh I accidentally wrote about that.' I sit down with the…
— Unknown Author
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When I was 23, 24, I used to have a really bad runny nose, mucus, tons of acne, reddishness all…
— Woody Harrelson
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I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.
— Hector Elizondo
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