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).