This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Leonard BernsteinFrom New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
Leonard BernsteinThe second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm
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 Bernstein