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

- Leo Ornstein

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, …

- Leo Ornstein

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

- Leo Ornstein

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

- Leo Ornstein

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

- 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

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…

- Leo Ornstein

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 equip…

- Leo Ornstein