Being Quote by Stephen Schwartz

“My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir”

— Anonymous

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing…

— Stephen Sondheim

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!

— Victor Borge

“Robert Kapilow is a born teacher, an enthusiast who can think on his feet, a 110 percent believer in the project at hand ...…

— Boston Globe

With Bernstein, because we wound up always working music first, it was where I really feel I learned how to write lyrics as a…

— Stephen Schwartz

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Sometimes I feel like Leonard Cohen when he went off to become a Buddhist.

— Leo Sayer

Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.

— Andrew Dominik

I went to Hollywood. I put the action in Hollywood. I watched a lot of movies, maybe 100 or something close to that. I…

— Michel Hazanavicius

Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing…

— Jason Robert Brown

As a writer, I've always been the sum total of my influences, and those are all over the spectrum: Rachmaninov, the Who, the Beatles,…

— Eric Carmen

When I was 12 years old and first decided I wanted to be a songwriter, the people that I always looked up to were…

— Eric Carmen