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

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• Leo Ornstein:

  The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that

• Leo Ornstein:

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

• Leo Ornstein:

  By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

• Leo Ornstein:

  Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do

• Leo Ornstein:

  But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

• Leo Ornstein:

  When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener;

• Leo Ornstein:

  Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so

• Leo Ornstein:

  You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat

• Leo Ornstein:

  Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

• Leo Ornstein:

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