The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972
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Source: The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972
“Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.”
Source: Settling the Score: Essays on Music
Source: The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961
“The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.”
Source: The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972
Source: The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972
“Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.”
Source: An Absolute Gift: A New Diary
“Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.”
Source: The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972
“Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.”
Source: The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961
Source: Critical Affairs: A Composer's Journal
Source: An Absolute Gift: A New Diary
“There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.”
Source: Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary
“Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.”
Source: Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir
“Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.”
Source: The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972
“Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.”
Source: The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961
“Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.”
“Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.”
Source: Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir
“The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.”
Source: The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961
Source: The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961
“Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.”
Source: Lies: A Diary, 1986-1999
“Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.”
Source: Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary
“The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of”
Source: The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972
“All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.”
Source: The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961
“If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.”
Source: Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary
Source: A Ned Rorem Reader
“Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.”
Source: Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary
“In music the present is extended.”
Source: Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir
Source: Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary
Source: The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972
Source: Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary
Source: The final diary, 1961-1972