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Charles Ives quotes: My God! What has sound got to do with music?

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

Charles Ives quotes: It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

Charles Ives quotes: It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

Charles Ives quotes: Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

Charles Ives quotes: Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

Charles Ives quotes: Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

Charles Ives quotes: I don't write music for sissy ears.

I don't write music for sissy ears.

Charles Ives quotes: Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have I want it that way.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have
I want it that way.

Charles Ives quotes: If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

Charles Ives quotes: The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

Charles Ives quotes: The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you

The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you

Charles Ives quotes: In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

Charles Ives quotes: If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

Charles Ives quotes: The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

Charles Ives quotes: Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

Charles Ives quotes: You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

Charles Ives quotes: Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

Charles Ives quotes: One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.

Charles Ives quotes: Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.

Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.

Charles Ives quotes: Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.