"The most difficult instrument to play in the……" — Leonard Bernstein

"The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle."

— Leonard Bernstein

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36 Quotes by Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more…
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies…
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of…
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop…
I believe that from the earth emerges a musical poetry that is by the nature of its sources tonal. I…
Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff
Einstein said that the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. So why do so many of us…

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