Top 25 Quotes by Leonard Bernstein of 60 - Page 3

I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.

I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.

Leonard Bernstein

Two, Answers

Leonard Bernstein (2007). “The Infinite Variety of Music”, p.142, Amadeus Press

When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.

Leonard Bernstein

Art, Heaven, Study

I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.

Leonard Bernstein

Hate, Knees, Wagner

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

Leonard Bernstein

Passion, Thinking, Form

What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul.

Leonard Bernstein

Real, Simple, Men

Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

Leonard Bernstein

Wine, Bluffs, Sophistication

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

Leonard Bernstein

Music, Writing, Self

Leonard Bernstein (2007). “The Infinite Variety of Music”, p.272, Amadeus Press