Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable

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"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."

- Leonard Bernstein

Inspiration

"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time."

- Leonard Bernstein

Ambition

"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time."

- Leonard Bernstein

Ambition

"Music… can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."

- Leonard Bernstein

Insight

"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just make sure that one note follows another…and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world."

- Leonard Bernstein

Determination

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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

- Leonardo DaVinci

Inspiration

"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."

- Socrates

Inspiration

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."

- Wilbur Wright

Inspiration

"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."

- Charles A. Lindbergh

Inspiration

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Inspiration