Leo Ornstein Quotes

In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

I hear music as narrative.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

When I think of Morricone, more than his using a specific instrument or a specific sound, it's his way of approaching music that sticks out.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

I play by ear - I'm self-taught. And so everything I do is through that technique.

Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")

I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.