Leonard Bernstein Quotes

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.

I can't imagine a world without music.

Music is an expression, a deep-seated feeling.

I just love music. I think it's art.

Music is magic.

One thing that's really important to me in my music is mystery.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

That's beautiful that you want to expand your music and do different things. Music is so beautiful and powerful.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!

I've always loved color because it's a little bit like music. I love that it seems to be both physical and ephemeral and engages us as a metaphor for our feeling lives.

Music is so unpredictable, but it's universal.