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Famous Leonard Bernstein Quotes
“To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.”
“Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.”
“It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.”
Source: Findings
“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”
“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
Source: The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard
“I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.”
Source: The Infinite Variety of Music