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Leonard Bernstein Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.”
— Leonard Bernstein
Tagged: Critics, Criticisn, Wisdom, travelling
“Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.”
— Leonard Bernstein, The Joy of Music
Tagged: Music, Art, music and its meaning
“I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.”
— Leonard Bernstein, The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard
Tagged: Optimism, Positive Thinking, Life, Questions
“Only you, you’re the only thing I’ll see forever
In my eyes, in my words and in everything I do
Nothing else but you
Ever”
— Leonard Bernstein, Tonight
Tagged: Loyalty, Affection towards the person you love, Love, romance, Devotion
“Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.”
— Leonard Bernstein
Tagged: Life, Music, Academic
“We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
We'll do the best we know.
We'll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow.
And make our garden grow!”
— Leonard Bernstein, Candide- Vocal Selections: Revised Edition Vocal Selections
Tagged: Purity, Wisdom, Doing Your Best, Effort, Hardwork
“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, Thinking and Writing in College
Tagged: Liberal, Altruism, Libertarianism, libertarian, Politics
“I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.”
— Leonard Bernstein
Tagged: Music, Composing, Art
“Always you, every thought I’ll ever know
Everywhere I go, you’ll be”
— Leonard Bernstein, Tonight
Tagged: Loyalty, Devotion, Love, romance, Thought
“Tonight, tonight
It all began tonight
I saw you and the world went away”
— Leonard Bernstein, Tonight
Tagged: Love, Love at First Sight, romance
“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”
— Leonard Bernstein
Tagged: plan, humor, Stress, Time Pressure, 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
Tagged: Mystery, Artist, Life, Energy, Feeling, Art, expression
“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
— Leonard Bernstein
Tagged: Music, Art, expression, Feelings, Communication
“The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art – enriched, ennobled, encouraged – they then act in a way that may affect the course of events... by the way they vote, they behave, the way they think.”
— Leonard Bernstein
Tagged: Activism, Art, inspiration, Social Change, Change
“There are two ways to think about all this. One way is that life is absurd to start with and that only a mad man goes out and tries to change the world, to fight for good and against evil. The other way is that life is indeed absurd to start with and that it can be given meaning only if you live it for your ideals, visions and poetic truths, and despite all the skepticism of all the Sancho Panzas' in the world, saddle up whatever worn out horse you've got and go after those visions.”
— Leonard Bernstein
Tagged: Life, Absurdity, Meaning, Living
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