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As a pianist, conductor, composer, educator, and long-time music director of the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein received worldwide acclaim for his wide-ranging musical genius. As a young man, he chose not to act on career advice to change his Jewish name to a more Western European sounding one. He is perhaps most known for composing the beautiful ‘West Side Story’ in 1957. Here are four quotes by Bernstein.

“I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.”

 - Leonard Bernstein  (1918-1990)

 

“Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.”

 - Leonard Bernstein  (1918-1990)

 

“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”

 - Leonard Bernstein  (1918-1990)

 

“I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all else, including natural scenery, organized piety and nationalistic superstructures. One human figure on the slope of a mountain can make the mountain disappear for me, one person fighting for truth can disqualify for me the entire system which had dispensed it.”

 - Leonard Bernstein  (1918-1990)

 

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