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....

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

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

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

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.

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

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share;....

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