Quotes by Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

…we can all shut-up and go back to our caves.

Caves

Shut Up

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

Men

Night

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

Art

Doe

Essentials

Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

Tone

Tunes

Writing

Any great art work … 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.

Motivational

Success

Time

Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years.

Musical

Secret

Years

Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

Balls

Children

Games

Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.

Conducting

Making Love

People

Einstein said that “the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.” So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

Beautiful

Mysterious

Trying

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it’s a whole new social revolution – the 60’s comes from it.

Clothes

Language

Revolution

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Artist

Balls

Beautiful

Believe

Bluffs

Broadway

Caves

Century

Change

Children

Clothes

Communication

Compassion

Composer

Conducting

Conductor

Creative

Critics

Determination

Doe

Drama

Dream

Effort

Embrace

Enthusiasm

Escaping

Essentials

Fighting

Firsts

Form

Funny

Games

Gay

Giving

Has Beens

Hate

Hearing

Heaven

Honor

Humble

Humor

Ideas

Ifs

Imagination

Inhale

Inspiration

Instruments

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Quotes by Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

…we can all shut-up and go back to our caves.

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.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

Any great art work … 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.

Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years.

Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.

Einstein said that “the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.” So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it’s a whole new social revolution – the 60’s comes from it.

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