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    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."

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