Leonard Bernstein Quotes

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

Music, Before, Violence

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

Politics, Future, Forward

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

Time, Great, Two

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

Life, Great, Feeling

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein

Music, Name, Unknowable

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

Interested, Sound, Orchestra

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

Talk, Days, Everybody

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

Words, Two, Technique

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: August 25, 1918

Died: October 14, 1990

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