21/07/2018
“I wish I could convey to you the excitement and insane joy of it [creating], which nothing else touches - not making love, not that wonderful glass of orange juice in the morning; nothing! Nothing touches the extraordinary, jubilant sensation of being caught up in this thing - so that you're not just inside yourself, not just lying there.
Let’s say that you get an idea and you go to the piano and you start with it; and you don’t know what you’re going to do next, and then you’re doing something else next, and you can’t stop doing the next things, and you know why. It's madness and it's marvelous. There's nothing in the world like it.”
Leonard Bernstein
University of Chicago, 1957
[Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt]
