Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.
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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
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.
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I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.
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In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.
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Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
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