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Die young Quote by Ned Rorem

“To see itself through, music must have idea or magic.…” quote by Ned Rorem — Download Open image

“To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.”

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Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

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Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

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If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

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Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

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Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.

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Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

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The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A…

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If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

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As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military…

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“We endow our poor lovers with godly traits, and then destroy them for being mortal. ”

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All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

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Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

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No matter how long you live, die young.

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