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.'

Leonard Bernstein

Quotes to Explore

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.

Flea Jane's Addiction
- Up
- Music
- Different
It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

M. Ward
- People
- Music
- Luxury
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.

Vaughn Monroe
- People
- Up
- Music
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.

Carlene Carter
- Music
- Stage
- Ego
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.'

Kate McKinnon
- Music
- Men
- Man
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

Washington Irving
- Real
- Humble
- Dignity