"By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided……" — Leo Ornstein
"By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear."
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Leo Ornstein
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28 Quotes by Leo Ornstein
Leo Ornstein has 28 quotes on this site.
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Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there…
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The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage…
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In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.
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A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.
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Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when…
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When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of…
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By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to…
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We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you…
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But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
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Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.
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I distrust anything that you don't hear.
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I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that…
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise…
— Dave Barry
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch…
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I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
— Mario Batali
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves…
— Thomas Beecham
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Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all…
— Robert Benchley
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Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down…
— Mary J. Blige
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To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.
— Andrea Bocelli
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
— William Jennings Bryan
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
— Samuel Butler
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When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it…
— Maria Callas
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