Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.
Leo Ornstein
Of all the arts, music is ...
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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
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
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
