I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
Leonard BernsteinStillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.
Leonard BernsteinThis will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Leonard Bernstein