Leonard Bernstein

To achieve great things two things are needed a plan and not quite enough time.

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.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

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.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

A liberal is a man or woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

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.

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

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

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.