Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.
Ned RoremTo see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.
Ned RoremAs 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.
Ned Roremcomposition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.
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