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Ned Rorem Quotes
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Minor artists borrow, great ones steal (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Compose first, worry later (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Artists, by definition innocent, don’t steal. But they do borrow without giving back. (Ned Rorem Quotes)
To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich. (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Sooner or later you’ve heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love. (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this. (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in (Ned Rorem Quotes)
It’s not evil that’s ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly (Ned Rorem Quotes)
An artist doesn’t necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more so! He speaks with a Formal Sigh (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Art’s the biggest vanity: the assumption that one’s view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes (Ned Rorem Quotes)
In music the present is extended (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Artists, by definition innocent, don’t steal. But they do borrow without giving back (Ned Rorem Quotes)
If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Sooner or later you’ve heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence (Ned Rorem Quotes)
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of (Ned Rorem Quotes)
The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty (Ned Rorem Quotes)
The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience (Ned Rorem Quotes)
To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great (Ned Rorem Quotes)
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover’s opinion (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced (Ned Rorem Quotes)
Don’t be too dismissive of children. While it’s true that few children are artists, all artists are children (Ned Rorem Quotes)
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