Quotes about Leo Ornstein

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

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I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will...

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I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of...

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I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece...

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I distrust anything that you don't hear.

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Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

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By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is...

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By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

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But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

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Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and...

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Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his...

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A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.

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