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Leonard Bernstein
American
Composer
About the author
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein,
American
Composer
#Day
#Man
#Woman
#Night
#Infinite
#Future
#Liberal
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
Leonard Bernstein,
American
Composer
#Words
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
Leonard Bernstein,
American
Composer
#Talk
#Man
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein,
American
Composer
#Music
#Name
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Leonard Bernstein,
American
Composer
#Right
#Life
#Will
#World
#Feeling
#Key
#Mystery
#Artist
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Leonard Bernstein,
American
Composer
#Will
#Music
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein,
American
Composer
#Time
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
Leonard Bernstein,
American
Composer
#Want
#Sound