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Leonard Bernstein Quotes about Music

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Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Leonard Bernstein
Music, Communication, Talking
Leonard Bernstein (1976). “The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard”, p.140, Harvard University Press

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Leonard Bernstein
Music, Peace, Ubuntu
Leonard Bernstein (1982). “Findings”, Anchor

I 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
Music, Spiritual, Art

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

Leonard Bernstein
Music, Art, Stars

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

Leonard Bernstein
Funny, Music, Joy

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

Leonard Bernstein
Music, Nice, Would Be
1960 The Joy of Music.

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

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