"The danger of that - and there's a……" — 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 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."
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Leo Ornstein
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28 Quotes by Leo Ornstein
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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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By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.
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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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