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Leo Ornstein Quotes
Page 2 of 2Leo Ornstein
December 2, 1892 - February 24, 2002
Nationality: American
Category: Composer
Subcategory: American Composer
|  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. | | Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract. | | To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision. | | Improvisation is terribly haphazard. | | No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music. | | I distrust anything that you don't hear. | | I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden. | | By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear. |
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