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Ned Rorem
American
Composer
About the author
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.
Ned Rorem,
American
Composer
#Music
#Meaning
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
Ned Rorem,
American
Composer
#Act
#Memory
#Inspiration
Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
Ned Rorem,
American
Composer
#Ability
#Humor
Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
Ned Rorem,
American
Composer
#Day
#Artist
Art means to dare - and to have been right.
Ned Rorem,
American
Composer
#Right
#Art
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
Ned Rorem,
American
Composer
#Being
#Perceptions
#Childhood
#Artist