"We can use techniques in modifying things, in……" — 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 out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising."
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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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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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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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