I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
Leonard BernsteinMozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.
Leonard BernsteinYou can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten minutes, the imagination will heat, the tightness will fade, and a certain spirit and rhythm will take over.
Leonard BernsteinIn the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
Leonard Bernstein