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 More Quotes by Leo Ornstein More Quotes From Leo Ornstein By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear. Leo Ornstein visuals patterns ears Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent. Leo Ornstein talent certain musical I distrust anything that you don't hear. Leo Ornstein distrust To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision. Leo Ornstein precision military people 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 value aesthetic music today The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get. Leo Ornstein myself you aesthetic experience 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. Leo Ornstein own my-own impossible believe