Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.
Leonard BernsteinIt is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.
Leonard BernsteinMusic, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard BernsteinI'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.
Leonard BernsteinI think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man
Leonard Bernstein