Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

- Leonard Bernstein

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

- Leonard Bernstein

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

- Leonard Bernstein

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

- Leonard Bernstein

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

- Leonard Bernstein

Life without music is unthinkable.

- Leonard Bernstein

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

- Leonard Bernstein

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout t…

- Leonard Bernstein

Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the be…

- Leonard Bernstein