Ned Rorem Quotes

American composer and diarist (1923–2022)

Ned Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was a composer and diarist, best known and most praised for his song settings. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1976.

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

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

Art means to dare — and to have been right.

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

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