Leonard Bernstein Quotes - Page 2

• To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Gay, Broadway, Composer

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• Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.

  Leonard Bernstein

  People, Making Love, Conducting

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• Esta debe ser la misión de todo hombre de buena voluntad: insistir, sin descanso, a riesgo de convertirse en un aburrido repetitivo, pero insistir en la consecución de un mundo en el que la mente haya triunfado sobre la violencia.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Men, Risk, Mind

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• Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

  Leonard Bernstein

  Beautiful, Trying, Mysterious

  "The Unanswered Question". Book by Leonard Bernstein, 1976.

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• Nuestra vida más activa emocionalmente se vive en nuestros sueños, y nuestras células se renuevan más laboriosamente en el sueño. Llegamos más alto en la meditación y más lejos en la oración. En la quietud todo ser humano es grande; está libre de la experiencia de la hostilidad; es un poeta, y lo más parecido a un ángel.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Dream, Prayer, Sleep

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• Creo en las personas. Siento, amo, necesito y respeto a las personas por encima de todo lo demás, incluidos los paisajes naturales, la piedad organizada y las superestructuras nacionalistas. Una figura humana en la ladera de una montaña puede hacer que la montaña desaparezca para mí, una persona que lucha por la verdad puede descalificar para mí todo el sistema que la había dispensado.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Creer, Luchar, Gente

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• When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Composer, Conductor

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• We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But this sorrow and rage will not inflame us to seek retribution; rather they will inflame our art. Our music will never again be quite the same. This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. And with each note we will honor the spirit of John Kennedy, commemorate his courage, and reaffirm his faith in the Triumph of the Mind.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Art, Honor, Mind

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• The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Play, Orchestra, Instruments

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• La alegría de la música nunca debe verse interrumpida por un anuncio.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Funny, Music, Joy

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• Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Writing, Tunes, Tone

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• El éxito es todo muy bien, siempre y cuando usted no inhala.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Long, Wells, Inhale

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• 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.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Men, Mark, Wells

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

  Leonard Bernstein

  Sound, Orchestra, Want

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• Cuando retumbe el trueno,
  Ahora la edad de oro ha muerto.
  Cuando los sueños a los que nos hemos aferrado
  Tratando de permanecer jóvenes
  nos han dejado resecos y viejos.
  Cuando mi coraje se desmorona,
  Cuando me siento confuso y frágil,
  Cuando mi espíritu vacila en altares decadentes
  Y mis ilusiones fallan...
  Sigo entonces.
  Continúo de nuevo.
  Sigo diciendo que celebraré otro día.
  Sigo adelante.
  Si mañana se derrumba
  Y todo lo que amo se ha ido
  Me enfrentaré al arrepentimiento todos mis días, y sin embargo
  seguiré adelante.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Dream, Determination, Regret

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• I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal known as the harmonic series.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Inspiration, Believe, Musical

  "The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard".

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• Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Compassion, Serenity, Suffering

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• Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Escaping, Music Is

  Leonard Bernstein (2007). “The Infinite Variety of Music”, p.69, Amadeus Press

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• It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music, Nice, Would Be

  1960 The Joy of Music.

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• El siglo XX ha sido un drama mal escrito, desde el principio.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Drama, Century, Has Beens

  "Great Performances (Leonard Bernstein: The Gift of Music)". TV Series, December 29, 1993.

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• Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Humble, Effort, Requirements

  "The Cambridge Companion to Conducting". Book by José Antonio Bowen (p. 16), November 20, 2003.

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• Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Clothes, Revolution, Language

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• If you're a good composer, you steal good steals.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Stealing, Composer, Ifs

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• The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of flour and water... I don't think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky... but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Thinking, Tchaikovsky, Water

  "Why Don't You Run Upstairs and Write a Nice Gershwin Tune?". The Atlantic Monthly, April 1955.

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• A partir de New Year, las perspectivas mejoran; vuelve el buen humor perdido en un ambiente de fracaso. Decido dejar de quejarme.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Funny, New Year, Years

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