Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
About Ned Rorem
Ned Miller Roremwas an American composer of contemporary classical music and a writer. Best known for his art songs, which number over 500, Rorem was considered the leading American of his time writing in the genre.
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Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
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Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
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Art means to dare – and to have been right.
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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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Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
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Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
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