When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.
Leonard BernsteinIt is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.
Leonard BernsteinLife without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.
Leonard BernsteinOur most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.
Leonard Bernstein