Quotes Leo Ornstein

A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just a...

Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. ...

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinat...

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and s...

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

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would ...

Every time I'm a bit surprised always, what the patterns loo...

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical ...

I consider that my own personal life and anecdotes may be am...

I distrust anything that you don't hear....

I know that there are some people who apparently operate wit...

I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now,...

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost...

I'm interested in producing a work of art, and unless I hear...

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will ...

Improvisation is terribly haphazard....

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

It doesn't matter how far I may have carried some of the thi...

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays h...

No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an...

Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one sec...

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really comin...

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

Some I made, that I definitely wanted in a certain way, and ...

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myse...