composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations. - Ned Rorem

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Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.

Ned Rorem

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

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Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

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

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

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Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

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Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

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For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.

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My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.

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I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.

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I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.

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