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Leo Ornstein

"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."

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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."

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"Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!"

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"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."

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"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."

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"What is now proved was once only imagined."

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"What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower."

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"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."

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"I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now."

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"I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me."

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"I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among the most interesting that I have ever seen."

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Leo Ornstein
"In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor."

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Leo Ornstein
"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."

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Leo Ornstein
"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."

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"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."

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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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Leo Ornstein
"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."

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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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Leo Ornstein
"Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language."

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"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."

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"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."

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