Leonard Bernstein Quotes
Most popular Leonard Bernstein Quotes

My God, who do they think I am - everybody?

To search for truth, one has to be drunk with imagination.

Music . . . can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

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

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

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.

A work of art does not answer questions: it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between their contradictory answers.

Poetry and music—but especially music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers—can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.