Leonard Bernstein Quotes

American - Composer | August 25, 1918 - October 14, 1990

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

Leonard Bernstein

GreatTimeEnoughPlanGreat Things

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Leonard Bernstein

MusicNameCommunicateUnknowable

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

LifeGreatWorldKeyMysteryArtist

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Leonard Bernstein

MusicViolenceWillMoreReplyThan

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

Leonard Bernstein

CommunicationWordsTwoTechnique

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

ManYouTalkDaysMarkWell

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

FutureDayPoliticsWomanManChild

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

Leonard Bernstein

WantSoundOrchestraNot Interested

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