52 Quotes by Leo Ornstein

It doesn't matter how far I may have carried some of the things, but I always pull back at the point where it ceases any longer to really be music.

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.

What it looks like on paper may be interesting enough, but what the listeners hears is ultimately what stays with him, that he is concerned with.

Yes, well, I tell you, because once I have completed a work, I simply am interested only in what I may hear in the next work that's coming.

Every time I'm a bit surprised always, what the patterns look like and what the whole thing looks like because, of course, I primarily hear.

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.

I know that there are some people who apparently operate with their eyes on the paper. They are more guided almost by the pattern.

I consider that my own personal life and anecdotes may be amusing enough and interesting enough, but they're in a different realm.

I distrust anything that you don't hear.