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Leo Ornstein

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

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 is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.

Leo Ornstein

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

Leo Ornstein

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

Leo Ornstein

genius leo ornstein

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

Leo Ornstein

genius leo ornstein

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

Leo Ornstein

genius leo ornstein

Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.

Leo Ornstein

genius leo ornstein

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

Leo Ornstein