The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer, pianist

Commencement Speech, Johns Hopkins University (1980-05-30)
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Collected in Findings: Fifty Years of Meditations on Music, Part 4 (1982).