Leonard Bernstein Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music, Communication, Talking

  Leonard Bernstein (1976). “The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard”, p.140, Harvard University Press

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

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music, Peace, Ubuntu

  Leonard Bernstein (1982). “Findings”, Anchor

• The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Funny, Music, Joy

• 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, Art, Stars

• I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music, Spiritual, Art

• 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.

• 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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