Ned Rorem
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"Ned Rorem" is an American composer and Personal journal/diarist, best known and most praised for his song settings. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976.

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

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.

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.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

The twelve-toners behave as if music should be seen and not heard.

To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich."