Ned Rorem Quotes

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of. - Ned Rorem

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

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin. - Ned Rorem

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence. - Ned Rorem

Art means to dare - and to have been right. - Ned Rorem

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. - Ned Rorem

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