"Well, no. I believe that it's not at……" — Leo Ornstein
"Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether."
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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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