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Top 25 Leo Ornstein Quotes (2025 Update)

Leo Ornstein Quote: “Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he’s actually trying to create his own language.”

1. “Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he’s actually trying to create his own language.”

— Leo Ornstein

Leo Ornstein 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.”

2. “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

Leo Ornstein Quote: “In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.”

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

— Leo Ornstein

Leo Ornstein Quote: “I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.”

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

— Leo Ornstein

Leo Ornstein Quote: “Improvisation is terribly haphazard.”

5. “Improvisation is terribly haphazard.”

— Leo Ornstein

Leo Ornstein Quote: “But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.”

6. “But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.”

— Leo Ornstein

Leo Ornstein 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.”

7. “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

Leo Ornstein 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.”

8. “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

Leo Ornstein Quote: “It doesn’t necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.”

9. “It doesn’t necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.”

— Leo Ornstein

Leo Ornstein Quote: “A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.”

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

— Leo Ornstein

Leo Ornstein Quote: “By the visual pattern, but mostly I’m guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.”

11. “By the visual pattern, but mostly I’m guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.”

— Leo Ornstein

Leo Ornstein 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.”

12. “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

Leo Ornstein Quote: “I distrust anything that you don’t hear.”

13. “I distrust anything that you don’t hear.”

— Leo Ornstein

Leo Ornstein Quote: “Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.”

14. “Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.”

— Leo Ornstein

Leo Ornstein 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.”

15. “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

Leo Ornstein 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.”

16. “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

Leo Ornstein 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.”

17. “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

Leo Ornstein Quote: “You write it down because finally, when it’s written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.”

18. “You write it down because finally, when it’s written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.”

— Leo Ornstein

Leo Ornstein Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Leo Ornstein 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.”

20. “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

Leo Ornstein 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.”

21. “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

Leo Ornstein Quote: “Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.”

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

— Leo Ornstein

Leo Ornstein 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.”

23. “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

Leo Ornstein 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.”

24. “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

Leo Ornstein 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.”

25. “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

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