"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time."
"Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it."
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Source: Leonard Bernstein (2007). “The Infinite Variety of Music”, p.272, Amadeus Press
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