Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music. Leo Ornstein Read Quote
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, there’s really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing. Leo Ornstein Read Quote
There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things. Leo Ornstein Read Quote
It doesn’t necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best. Leo Ornstein Read Quote
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. Leo Ornstein Read Quote
Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing – it’s a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing. Leo Ornstein Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Leo Ornstein Read Quote
