Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem , composer

• "The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty."
  • Quoted in Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) (2001).

• "The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience."
  • ibid

Source

• Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) (2001). Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day. New York: Routledge. ISBN 041522974X.