"Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future."

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Source : Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.245, Open Road Media

Ned Rorem

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“As for the ethics, law, and politics relationship, there has always been a tension for me as I try to keep them distinct while recognizing their interactions. A valuable contribution to my thinking there and elsewhere was Ellen Meiksins Wood's Mind and Politics, which reinforced for me the ways in which seemingly disparate philosophical endeavors were/are interconnected, and although I have tended to give a certain priority to ethical considerations as part of practical reasoning, I am reminded often enough that this position makes some contentious presumptions .”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I think you have you to give people the facts [about global warming], and then you have to tell them, this is not like drinking Castor Oil. There is a, an economically exciting way for us to create a whole new generation of American jobs without costing them an enormous amount of money or forcing them to change their lifestyle.”
“It's just a combination of letters I liked. And when your whole art's based on the lettering you choose, you kinda figure out what ones work together. I just liked the shapes of the k, a, w, s. It has no meaning.”
“I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in it-stones and buildings and trees and air - but that's not what fills up a frame. You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.”

Source : Joel Meyerowitz (1990). “Creating a sense of place”, Smithsonian Inst Pr
“Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.”
“Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”
“I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.”

Source : "'I Was Never an Anti-Semite'". articles.latimes.com. March 01, 2000.
“All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.”

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