Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff
Leonard BernsteinTo achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
Leonard BernsteinIt would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.
Leonard BernsteinEinstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?
Leonard BernsteinI believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal known as the harmonic series.
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