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.
In music the present is extended. - Ned Rorem
In music the present is extended.
- Ned Rorem
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own. - Ned Rorem
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
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. - Ned Rorem
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.
The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. - Ned Rorem
The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.
Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future. - Ned Rorem
Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations. - Ned Rorem
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.
Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence. - Ned Rorem
Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.
If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist. - Ned Rorem
If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. - Ned Rorem
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
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