Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

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• Leo Ornstein:

  A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.

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

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  Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I t

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  I distrust anything that you don't hear.

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  Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories an

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  The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they hav

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  By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult

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  Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.