After the assassination of President Kennedy…
Composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein says:
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”Absolutely!
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? …
“An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera house.” - Maria Callas
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One of my favorite. quotes. ever.
