Leonard Bernstein: Quotes about the world

Leonard Bernstein was American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. Explore interesting quotes on world.
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“Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.”

Leonard Bernstein

"What Makes Opera Grand?", Vogue (December 1958)

“The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. The opposite of a Greek drama. Act one: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act two: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act three: Greed and hypocrisy … I don't dare continue.”

Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein: The Gift Of Music

“The trouble with you and me, Ned, is that we want everyone in the world to personally love us, and of course that's impossible; you just don't meet everyone in the world.”

Leonard Bernstein

Ned Rorem, Paris Diary (1966)