Ned Rorem Quotes
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Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
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Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
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Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
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The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.
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The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.
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Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.
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Art means to dare - and to have been right.