"I've been all over the world and I've……" — Leonard Bernstein
"I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic."
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36 Quotes by Leonard Bernstein
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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 keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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