"Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds……" — Ned Rorem
"Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist."
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28 Quotes by Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem has 28 quotes on this site.
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As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to…
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Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
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Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.
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Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.
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Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.
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Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.
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Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
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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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The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged…
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Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.
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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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All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.
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