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"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable." -
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Leonard Bernstein
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"Any great work of art 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."
"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."
"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."
"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer."
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"Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."
"Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in."
"Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?"
"By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another."
"I thank my God everytime I remember you."
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