A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide. Leo Ornstein Read Quote
You write it down because finally, when it’s written down you do get it out of your system somewhat. Leo Ornstein Read Quote
Now, what we are not talking about, what you’re really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you’re doing, what you’re trying to express. Leo Ornstein Read Quote
By the visual pattern, but mostly I’m guided entirely by my ear, what I hear. Leo Ornstein Read Quote
The danger of that – and there’s a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of – is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get. Leo Ornstein Read Quote
I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden. Leo Ornstein Read Quote
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he’s actually trying to create his own language. Leo Ornstein Read Quote
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. Leo Ornstein Read Quote
