When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener – we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you’re writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there. Leo Ornstein Read Quote
The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment. Leo Ornstein Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Well, no. I believe that it’s not at all impossible that some of the performances that I’ve heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether. Leo Ornstein Read Quote
