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Life without music is unthink...

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

Life without music is meaning...

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

The second fiddle. I can get ...

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

This must be the mission of e...

This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

I believe that from that Eart...

I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal known as the harmonic series.

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

From New Year's on the outloo...

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

Mozart combines serenity, mel...

Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages.

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

The most difficult instrument...

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

Success is all very well as ...

Success is all very well as long as you don't inhale.

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

Einstein said that "the most ...

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?

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

Children must receive music i...

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.

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

Perhaps the chief requirement...

Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence.

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

A work of art does not answer...

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

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

Wine snobbery, of course, is ...

Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

Music, of all the arts, stand...

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

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

Bernstein has been disclosing...

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

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

Any great art work … revives ...

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.

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Our most emotionally active l...

Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

What [Louis Armstrong] does i...

What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul.

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

When I am with composers, I s...

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

Leonard Bernstein 71 quotes

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