1/4 "I don’t want to give in and settle for some specialty. I don& #39;t want to spend my life as Toscanini did, studying and restudying the same fifty pieces of music. It would bore me to death..."

[https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📸" title="Camera with flash" aria-label="Emoji: Camera with flash">Leonard Bernstein by Al Hirschfeld, 1958; © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation.]

2/4 "...I want to conduct https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎶" title="Multiple musical notes" aria-label="Emoji: Multiple musical notes">. I want to play the piano https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎹" title="Musical keyboard" aria-label="Emoji: Musical keyboard">. I want to write for Hollywood https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎥" title="Movie camera" aria-label="Emoji: Movie camera">. I want to write symphonic music https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎻" title="Violin" aria-label="Emoji: Violin">. I want to keep on trying to be, in the full sense of that wonderful word, a musician. I also want to teach. I want to write books and poetry https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✏" title="Pencil" aria-label="Emoji: Pencil">..."

3/4 "...And I think I can still do justice to them all. But I can’t do them all at once. I have to learn to do one at a time, and to give it all my strength until I’ve done it right..."

4/4 "...Mozart, Mendelssohn, Bach, Haydn -- they were all performers and conductors as well as composers, and they did a lot of other things too. Only then, there was time."
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💬" title="Speech balloon" aria-label="Emoji: Speech balloon"> Leonard Bernstein, 1957