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I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.

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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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Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

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

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Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.

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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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