Ned Rorem
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Ned Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was a composer and diarist, best known and most praised for his song settings. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1976.
Quotes
[edit]- The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.
- Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (eds) (2001). Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day. ISBN 041522974X.
- The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.
- Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (eds) (2001). Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day. ISBN 041522974X.
- Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.
- Being Alone, The Ontario Review (Spring/Summer 1980)
- Art means to dare — and to have been right.
- W magazine (10 October 1980).
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