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Leo Ornstein

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I distrust anything that you don't hear.


— Leo Ornstein


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By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know.


— Leo Ornstein


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A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.


— 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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By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.


— Leo Ornstein


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


— Leo Ornstein


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I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.


— Leo Ornstein


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I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.


— Leo Ornstein


#interested #move #music #only #piece

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.


— Leo Ornstein


#improvisation #terribly

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


— Leo Ornstein


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About Leo Ornstein

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Did you know about Leo Ornstein?

Though he gave his last public concert before the age of forty he continued writing music for another half-century and beyond. His performances of works by avant-garde composers and his own innovative and even shocking pieces made him a cause célèbre on both sides of the Atlantic.

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