What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul.
Leonard BernsteinWhen the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.
Leonard BernsteinWhen I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.
Leonard BernsteinThis will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Leonard Bernstein