Quotes by Leonard Bernstein

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

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

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

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.