I'm interested in producing a work of art, and unless I hear the thing thoroughly, I would have no reason to put it down at all.
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It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.Leo Ornstein
Some I made, that I definitely wanted in a certain way, and some I simply decided to leave to the discretion, to the impact of the performer, himself.
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.
Leo Ornstein
Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
Leo Ornstein
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.
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