Creative Quotations from . . .
Ned Rorem
(1923-____) born on Oct 23
US composer. "He won the 1976 Pulitzer for his Bicentennial commission "Air Music," and published many diaries."
 
   
F
Humor is the ability to see 3 sides to one coin.

R
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
A
"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."
N
"Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence."
K
"To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.""


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "Quotations to Cheer You Up When the World is Getting You Down," by Allen Klein, 1991."
R: ""Music From The Inside Out," 1967."
A: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
K: ""Pure Contraption," 1974."



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