Ned Rorem Quotes

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Love is a mystery. We embrace it where we can. Mostly we do not choose whom we love. It just happens. A voice speaks to us, in ways the ears cannot hear. We recognize a beauty the eye does not see. We experience a change in our hearts that no voice can describe.

I'm a lover of songs.

People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art - or falling out of love or being heartbroken - drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we've sort of stopped talking about it.

Love, I find, is like singing.

The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence

Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it's also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest things to throw away.

I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.

I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.

I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with. There are people I can tell are amazing, but I can't connect for some reason. It doesn't really make sense why you connect with someone or you don't.

Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.

If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?

Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.

I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.

Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

Love is never going to go out of style, a man is always going to want to have the love of a woman. She just needs a game plan to work out how to get his love.

Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.

The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.

My family, my fans and yes, romance is always there in one way or another. Life is full of these emotions and I have always found pleasure in incorporating them into my music.

They say that falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful, so they say.

Love is not a theme. It's an atmosphere, a mood.