What did Leonard Bernstein mean by: When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer. - Leonard Bernstein Composer and conductor · USA Copy
+ If you’re a good composer, you steal good steals. Feraz Zeid, June 24, 2023December 12, 2023, Leonard Bernstein, Composer, Stealing, 0 - Leonard Bernstein Composer and conductor · USA
+ Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Leonard Bernstein, Tone, Tunes, Writing, 0 - Leonard Bernstein Composer and conductor · USA
+ I’m not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Leonard Bernstein, Orchestra, Sound, 0 - Leonard Bernstein Composer and conductor · USA
+ Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Leonard Bernstein, Musical, Secret, 0 - Leonard Bernstein Composer and conductor · USA
+ Mozart’s music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Leonard Bernstein, Escaping, Music Is, 0 - Leonard Bernstein Composer and conductor · USA
+ Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Leonard Bernstein, Wine, 0 - Leonard Bernstein Composer and conductor · USA
+ Success is all very well as long as you don’t inhale. Feraz Zeid, July 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Leonard Bernstein, Inhale, 0 - Leonard Bernstein Composer and conductor · USA
+ To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Leonard Bernstein, Humor, Stress, Time, 0 - Leonard Bernstein Composer and conductor · USA
Brahms’ Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. - Franz Liszt Composer · Austria-Hungary
It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer. - Ludwig van Beethoven Composer · Germany
Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn. - Ludwig van Beethoven Composer · Germany
Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success. - Kurt Masur Conductor · Germany
