Quotes by : Leonard Bernstein

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the....

The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot....

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than....

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and....

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

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without....

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

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent....

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies....