Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem
Ned Roremis an American composer and diarist. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth23 October 1923
CountryUnited States of America
In music the present is extended.
humor coins sides
Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
art nostalgia sole
Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.
ballet musical opera
Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.
artist giving definitions
Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
music love-is singing
Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.
romantic-love america france
Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.
real tolerance your-best-friend
Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.
art views vanity
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.
artist people feelings
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.
inspiration greatness causes
Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.
music missing opinion
Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.
silence invisible truth-is
Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.
pieces hearing needs
The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.