"The same piece of music alters at each……" — Ned Rorem
"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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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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Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
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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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More Alters Quotes
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
— William Blake
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The eye altering, alters all.
— William Blake
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things…
— James Allen
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The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my…
— Oswald Chambers
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
— Claude Monet
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Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our…
— Drake
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Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or…
— Gerald Brenan
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Every action alters the soul of the doer.
— Oswald Spengler
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If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental…
— Unknown Author
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position…
— Joan Didion
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Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for…
— Anna Funder
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Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess…
— Barry Lopez
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