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
men two fingers
All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.
military gay men
As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely.
music speech needs
If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.
musical influential-person creation
So far as musical pedagogy is concerned - And by extension of musical creation - Nadia Boulanger is the most influential person who ever lived
ideas magic rich
To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.
beautiful moving world
The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.
memories waste
Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.
memories flower roots
The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.
rome perfect evil
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.
people fascinating
There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.
adventure writing yesterday
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.
art lying knowing
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
artist fire each-day
Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
memories inspiration
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.