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

~ Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein Humor Stress

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... because people are changed by art – enriched, ennobled, encouraged – they then act in a way that may affect the course of events... by the way they vote, they behave, the way they think.

~ Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein Activism Arts Inspiration Social Change

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 lets you breathe its strange, special air.

~ Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein Aesthetics Art Creativity Epiphanic Moment Epiphany Inspirational Transcendence

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

~ Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein Creativity Music

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

Leonard Bernstein Music

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

~ Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein Live Life Optimism Positive Thinking

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

~ Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein Creativity Criticism Critics

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

Leonard Bernstein Creativity Literature On Writing

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 among us has the gift of dreams at night - visions and yearnings and hopes. Everyone can also think; it is the quality thought that makes the difference - not just the quality of logical thinking, but of imaginative thinking. And our greatest thinkers, those who have radically changed our world, have always arrived at their truths by dreaming them; they are first fantasized, and only then subjected to proof.

~ Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein Dreams Imagination

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

Leonard Bernstein Altruism Conservative Government Liberal Libertarian Politics Progressive Selfishness State

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

~ Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein Words Two Technique

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

~ Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein Name Communicate

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

~ Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein Violence Will Reply

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

~ Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein Great Plan Great Things

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.

~ Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein Life Artist Mystery
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