I think it is time we learned ...

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man
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 Leonard Bernstein

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The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.
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 Leonard Bernstein
Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.
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 Leonard Bernstein
Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.
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 Leonard Bernstein
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
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I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all else, including natural scenery, organized piety and nationalistic superstructures. One human figure on the slope of a mountain can make the mountain disappear for me, one person fighting for truth can disqualify for me the entire system which had dispensed it.
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 Leonard Bernstein