Leonard Bernstein quotes

" When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer. " # Quotations

" I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. " # Quotations # Music # Love

" 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. " # Children # Love # The future

" Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. " # Writers and Writing # Action # Books - Reading

" Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. " # Techniques # Words # Communication

" 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. " # Arts and Artists # Love # Life and Living

" Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. " # Success # Love # Arts and Artists

" It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition-that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else. " # Music # Love # Learning

" Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. " # Music # Communism and Socialism # Communication