Song Quotes by Leo Ornstein

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become…

— Leo Ornstein

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just…

— Leo Ornstein

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

— Leo Ornstein

Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to…

— Leo Ornstein

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going…

— Leo Ornstein

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

— Leo Ornstein

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

— Leo Ornstein

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

— Leo Ornstein

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific…

— Leo Ornstein

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

— Leo Ornstein

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

— Leo Ornstein

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it…

— Leo Ornstein

There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really…

— Leo Ornstein

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

— Leo Ornstein

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

— Leo Ornstein