Leonard Bernstein Quotes

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  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

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  Tags in Woman, Man

• It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

  Leonard Bernstein

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• Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable

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

  Leonard Bernstein

  Topics in Achievement, Humor

  Tags in Time

• 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

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• 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

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  Tags in Man

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

  Leonard Bernstein

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

  Leonard Bernstein

  Tags in Orchestra, Composer

Leonard Bernstein (8)

Birth:	25th August, 1918
Death:	14th October, 1990
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Composer, Pianist, Music Conductor

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