“ To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time. Leonard Bernstein
“ This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. Leonard Bernstein
“ 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
“ Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. Leonard Bernstein
“ This will be our reply to violence:to make music more intensely,more beautifully,more devotedly than ever before. Leonard Bernstein
“ 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… Leonard Bernstein
“ The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us are endowed with the powers of fantasy, the dullest of dullards… Leonard Bernstein
“ I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes. Leonard Bernstein
“ 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
“ 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 let… Leonard Bernstein
“ The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... bec… Leonard Bernstein
