Leonard Bernstein Quotes - Page 3

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• I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Two, Answers

  Leonard Bernstein (2007). “The Infinite Variety of Music”, p.142, Amadeus Press

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• When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Art, Heaven, Study

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• I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Hate, Knees, Wagner

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• It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Passion, Thinking, Form

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• What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Real, Simple, Men

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• Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

  Leonard Bernstein

  Wine, Bluffs, Sophistication

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• Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music, Writing, Self

  Leonard Bernstein (2007). “The Infinite Variety of Music”, p.272, Amadeus Press

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• ...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Caves, Shut Up

  Leonard Bernstein (1976). “The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Years, Secret, Musical

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• Which of my Jewish roots do I follow?

  Leonard Bernstein

  Roots

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