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Leo Ornstein Quotes
A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
By the visual pattern, but mostly Im guided entirely by my ear, what I hear. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. Theres no specific line, as you know. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
Every time Im a bit surprised always, what the patterns look like and what the whole thing looks like because, of course, I primarily hear. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
I consider that my own personal life and anecdotes may be amusing enough and interesting enough, but theyre in a different realm. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
I distrust anything that you dont hear. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
I know that there are some people who apparently operate with their eyes on the paper. They are more guided almost by the pattern. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, theres really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
Im interested in producing a work of art, and unless I hear the thing thoroughly, I would have no reason to put it down at all. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
Im really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that Im writing music. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
Improvisation is terribly haphazard. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
It doesnt matter how far I may have carried some of the things, but I always pull back at the point where it ceases any longer to really be music. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
It doesnt necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think its that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - its a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
Now, what we are not talking about, what youre really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what youre doing, what youre trying to express. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
Some I made, that I definitely wanted in a certain way, and some I simply decided to leave to the discretion, to the impact of the performer, himself. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
The danger of that - and theres a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
There is a paradox because I think youve struck a chord there that we ought to simply pursue - it is true that music is a form of communication. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but hes actually trying to create his own language. - Leo Ornstein Quotes
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