Quotes of Ned Rorem - somelinesforyou

“ Sooner or later you’ve heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love. ”

- Ned Rorem

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

- Ned Rorem

“ Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back. ”

- Ned Rorem

“ Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love. ”

- Ned Rorem

“ As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely. ”

- Ned Rorem

“ Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. ”

- Ned Rorem

“ 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. ”

- Ned Rorem

“ As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely. ”

- Ned Rorem

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

- Ned Rorem

“ As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely. ”

- Ned Rorem

“ As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely. ”

- Ned Rorem

“ Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love. ”

- Ned Rorem

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

- Ned Rorem

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

- Ned Rorem

“ As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely. ”

- Ned Rorem

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

- Ned Rorem

“ Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in. ”

- Ned Rorem

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

- Ned Rorem

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

- Ned Rorem

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

- Ned Rorem

“ As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely. ”

- Ned Rorem

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

- Ned Rorem

“ Art means to dare - and to have been right. ”

- Ned Rorem

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

- Ned Rorem

“ Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love. ”

- Ned Rorem

“ Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love. ”

- Ned Rorem
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