Quotes by : Leonard Bernstein

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

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....

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

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.

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....