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

  Children, Artist

  Ned Rorem (2001). “A Ned Rorem Reader”, p.26, Yale University Press

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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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  Growing Up, Artist, Childhood

  Ned Rorem (2000). “Lies: A Diary, 1986-1999”, Counterpoint Press

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• Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

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  Memories, Waste

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961”, p.69, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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  Rome, Evil, Perfect

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• Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

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  Inspirational, Memories, Brainstorming

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Nostalgia, Evoke

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• Los fuegos divinos no arden cada día, pero un artista funciona en su resplandor, esperando su reaparición.

  Ned Rorem

  Artist, Fire, Each Day

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

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  Beautiful, Moving, Doe

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961”, p.118, Open Road Media

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• If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

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  Music, Needs, Speech

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.337, Open Road Media

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• La composición es la notación de la distorsión de lo que los compositores creen haber oído antes. Las obras maestras son maravillosas citas erróneas.

  Ned Rorem

  Thinking, Distortion, Composer

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

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  Art, Lying, Knowing

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972”, p.63, Open Road Media

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• El humor es la capacidad de ver las tres caras de una moneda.

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  Humor, Two Sides, Flipping A Coin

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.149, Open Road Media

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• Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.

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  Love, America, France

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• So far as musical pedagogy is concerned -
  And by extension of musical creation -
  Nadia Boulanger is the most influential person who ever lived

  Ned Rorem

  Musical, Influential Person, Creation

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• Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

  Ned Rorem

  Silence, Truth Is, Invisible

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• In music the present is extended.

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  Ned Rorem (2013). “Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir”, p.326, Open Road Media

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• If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

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  Mean, Needs, States

  Ned Rorem (1970). “Critical Affairs: A Composer's Journal”, George Braziller

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• 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.

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  Writing, Adventure, Yesterday

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972”, p.97, Open Road Media

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• Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.

  Ned Rorem

  Ballet, Musical, Opera

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• To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.

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  Ideas, Magic, Rich

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• All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

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  Men, Two, Eleven

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961”, p.136, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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  Memories, Flower, Keys

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972”, p.102, Open Road Media

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• Los artistas, por definición inocentes, no roban. Pero toman prestado sin devolver.

  Ned Rorem

  Artist, Giving, Definitions

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir”, p.210, Open Road Media

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• Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Vanity, Views

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• La más difícil de todas las artes para hablar es la música, porque la música no tiene sentido para hablar de ella

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Speak, Music Is

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972”, p.70, Open Road Media

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