Quotes by Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem

All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

Eleven

Men

Two

An artist doesn’t necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more so! He speaks with a Formal Sigh.

Artist

Feelings

People

Anyone can be gay – it’s no accomplishment – but only I can be me.

Accomplishment

Gay

I Can

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

Artist

Childhood

Growing Up

Art means to dare – and to have been right.

Art

Dare

Mean

Art’s the biggest vanity: the assumption that one’s view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

Art

Vanity

Views

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

Artist

Definitions

Giving

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.

Gay

Men

Military

Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.

Ballet

Musical

Opera

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.

Classic

Form

Mean

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America

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Brainstorming

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Children

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Concerts

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Creative

Dare

Definitions

Distortion

Doe

Each Day

Eleven

Evil

Evoke

Fascinating

Feelings

Fire

Firsts

Flipping A Coin

Flower

Form

France

Gay

Giving

Greatness

Growing Up

Half

Hearing

Hero

Humor

I Can

Ideas

Influential Person

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Inspirational

Invisible

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The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

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Quotes by Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem

All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

An artist doesn’t necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more so! He speaks with a Formal Sigh.

Anyone can be gay – it’s no accomplishment – but only I can be me.

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.

Art’s the biggest vanity: the assumption that one’s view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

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

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.

Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.

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.

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