"Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous……" — Leonard Bernstein
"Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors."
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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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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 Communication Quotes
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High thoughts must have high language.
— Aristophanes
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
— M H Abrams
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
— Malcolm Arnold
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
— Matthew Arnold
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
— Isaac Asimov
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
— Margaret Atwood
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than…
— Francis Bacon
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What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through…
— Erykah Badu
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
— Walter Bagehot
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