Ned Rorem

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

 * The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.


 * The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.


 * 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).