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I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
Leonard Bernstein
Sound
Want
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein
Time
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Leonard Bernstein
Music
Will
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Leonard Bernstein
Life
Artist
Feeling
Key
Mystery
Right
Will
World
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein
Music
Name
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
Leonard Bernstein
Man
Talk
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
Leonard Bernstein
Words
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein
Day
Future
Infinite
Liberal
Man
Night
Woman