Leonard Bernstein
American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist
Lived from: 1918 - 1990
Category: Music | Politics Country: 
United States
Born: 25 august 1918 Died: 14 october 1990
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A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
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I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
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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.
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Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
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This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
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To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
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