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.
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"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."
"Art means to dare — and to have been right."