What did Leonard Bernstein mean by: Success is all very well as long as you don’t inhale. Leonard Bernstein Composer and conductor · USA Copy
+ I’m not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Leonard Bernstein, Authenticity, Interpretation, 0 Leonard Bernstein Composer and conductor · USA
+ Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Leonard Bernstein, Connection, Meaning, Music, 0 Leonard Bernstein Composer and conductor · USA
+ It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Leonard Bernstein, Form, Passion, 0 Leonard Bernstein Composer and conductor · USA
+ I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing. Author, October 13, 2023January 2, 2025, Leonard Bernstein, Duality, Introspection, Uncertainty, 0 Leonard Bernstein Composer and conductor · USA
+ …we can all shut-up and go back to our caves. Author, August 9, 2023January 2, 2025, Leonard Bernstein, Isolation, Retreat, Silence, 0 Leonard Bernstein Composer and conductor · USA
+ I can’t live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it . Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Leonard Bernstein, Lifestyle, Music, Passion, 0 Leonard Bernstein Composer and conductor · USA
+ I believe that man’s noblest endowment is his capacity to change. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Leonard Bernstein, Capacity, Change, Nobility, 0 Leonard Bernstein Composer and conductor · USA
+ Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Leonard Bernstein, Knowledge, Sophistication, 0 Leonard Bernstein Composer and conductor · USA
Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn’t bore. Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I never have wit until I am below stairs. [Fr., Je n’ai jamais d’esprit qu’au bas de l’escalier.] Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France