Famous Leonard Bernstein Quotes

  • 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

    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

    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

  • I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a statue of a critic. – Leonard Bernstein

    I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a statue of a critic.– Leonard Bernstein

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

    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

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

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

  • Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. – Leonard Bernstein

    Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.– Leonard Bernstein