"Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of……" — Ned Rorem

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

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28 Quotes by Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to…
Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.
Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.
Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.
Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.
Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.
The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged…
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of
All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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