From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
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This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Interpretation
What this quote means
In response to violence, we should create and appreciate music with even greater passion and beauty.
Leonard Bernstein's quote emphasizes the power of music as a response to violence, suggesting that rather than succumbing to negativity, we should channel our energy into creating more profound and beautiful music. It advocates for the transformative and healing qualities of art as a way to confront and counteract the effects of violence in society.
Themes
MusicViolenceArtBeautyPassion
In practice
Example use cases
During a community gathering to promote peace, this quote can inspire musicians to come together.
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All quotes βOur most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.
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Any great art work β¦ revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
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The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
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Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.
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