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Leonard Bernstein Quotes

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

Leonard Bernstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 25, 1918 - October 14, 1990

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Want Sound Orchestra Not Interested

I find these dramas fascinating - it's a world that many of us fortunately don't dip into. The legal system is all around us, but the majority of us don't have to go into a court, so it's a way into another world that is unusual.

World Legal Find Go Way System

I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.

Love Feel Uncomfortable You Fall

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

Michael Jackson

Truth Lie People Story Care Judge

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

Time Independent Mean Always Used

I can tell you what I really love: when I run into people on the street that tell me they have connected with my music.

Solange Knowles

Love Music People Me You I Can

If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.

Integrity Important Anything Reporter

I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of protest. I don't think it changes policy; I think it changes discourse, and discourse can change ideas, and for me, that's what it's about: having that space for conversation.

Change Art Space Me Ideas Think

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

Evil Society Problem Prejudice More

I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.

Love Character People Think Actor

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

Living Solar Solar System System

When I first started painting, I had an interesting nightmare about Cleveland - I dreamed the houses there were encased in this free-floating cage structure. I guess Cleveland was a confining place for me, even though my parents weren't too conservative.

Parents Me Painting Interesting Cage

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

Women Value Wake Up Free Say Right

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