"If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist."

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Source : Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.337, Open Road Media

Ned Rorem

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“It is the Sacrament of Love that excites the soul to ardent prayer. It stirs up the virtue of impetration and, as it were, forces God to grant our petition. It deepens the abyss of humility, above all it enkindles the flame of love in the heart; hence the Sacrament is the Gift of gifts, and the Grace of graces”
“The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made one Western, which was 'Three Amigos,' but I would love to make a serious Western. I'm just wide open.”
“Malice is only another name for mediocrity.”

Source : Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”
“To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others have done; and this, because the humanities are at once the creation and the interpreters of the past, is the great purpose of humanistic scholarship.”
“I have an agent in Hollywood and he's looking for material. If I get the offer and I feel I relate to that material, I will do it. I would love to do a horror film, a thriller, a tearjerker... I like diversity. I would just like to sustain my sense of humour!”

Source : Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
“Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.”
“There is no way to greatness. Greatness is the way.”
“Dogs have their day but cats have 365.”

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