Leonard Bernstein Quotes
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.'
Quotes to Explore
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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.
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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
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I love having a croissant and a great cup of coffee. Just one cup.
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I think it should be socially acceptable for men to like 'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt.
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At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.
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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.'
