Quotes by Ned Rorem

• The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.
• Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
• Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
• Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
• Art means to dare - and to have been right.
• Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.