58 Quotes by Ned Rorem

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

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

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

The twelve-toners behave as if music should be seen and not heard

Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.