Quotes by Leo Ornstein

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

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)

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple. (Leo Ornstein)

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear. (Leo Ornstein)

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. Theres no specific line, as you know. (Leo Ornstein)

Every time I'm a bit surprised always, what the patterns look like and what the whole thing looks like because, of course, I primarily hear. (Leo Ornstein)

I consider that my own personal life and anecdotes may be amusing enough and interesting enough, but they're in a different realm. (Leo Ornstein)

I distrust anything that you don't hear. (Leo Ornstein)

I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, theres really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing. (Leo Ornstein)