Leonard Bernstein Quotes

Man keeps inventing things all the time.

All really worthwhile artists, creators, use the technology of their time, and anybody who doesn't becomes immediately a fossil.

As humans, we've always innovated our way out of problems, whether it was the first torch to light a dark cave or the steam engine that sparked a revolution.

The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences and arts which have been made within that period. Some of these have rendered the elements themselves subservient to the purposes of man, have harnessed them to the yoke of his labors and effected the great blessings of moderating his own, of accomplishing what was beyond his feeble force, and extending the comforts of life to a much enlarged circle, to those who had before known its necessaries only.

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

Among men who are really free, every form of industry becomes more rapidly improved - all the arts flourish more gracefully - all the sciences extend their range.

Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.

Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.