Quotes by : Leonard Bernstein

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

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

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

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

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....

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

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

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

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