12 inspiring Leonard Bernstein quotes that will improve your life immeasurably
He was just as good with words as he was with the baton - here are some of Leonard Bernstein's finest musings on music, politics, life and art.
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1. Leonard Bernstein Quotes
"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."
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2. Leonard Bernstein Quotes
"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer."
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3. Leonard Bernstein Quotes
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
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4. Leonard Bernstein Quotes
"Why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?"
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5. Leonard Bernstein Quotes
"If you're a good composer, you steal good steals."
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6. Leonard Bernstein Quotes
"Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors."
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7. Leonard Bernstein Quotes
"The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning."
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8. Leonard Bernstein Quotes
"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."
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9. Leonard Bernstein Quotes
"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."
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10. Leonard Bernstein Quotes
"If I don't become Brahms or Tchaikovsky or Stravinsky when I'm conducting their works, then it won't be a great performance."
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11. Leonard Bernstein Quotes
"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time."
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12. Leonard Bernstein Quotes
"I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it, studying it, or thinking about it."
