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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.
— Ned Rorem
All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.
— Ned Rorem
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.
— Ned Rorem
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.
— Ned Rorem
To see itself through, music must have idea or magic ... Music with neither dies young though rich.
— Ned Rorem
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
— Ned Rorem
Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.
— Ned Rorem
Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.
— Ned Rorem
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
— Ned Rorem
Art means to dare - and to have been right.
— Ned Rorem
In music the present is extended.
— Ned Rorem
Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.
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