Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time – Leonard Bernstein
The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm – Leonard Bernstein
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. – Leonard Bernstein
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. – Leonard Bernstein
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we dont know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an oxs or bears, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. – Meister Eckhart