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Beauty in music is too often ...

Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we are inclined to call them beautiful. Frequently, when a new or unfamiliar work is accepted as beautiful on its first hearing, its fundamental quality is one that tends to put the mind to sleep.

Charles Ives 44 quotes

Expression, to a great extent...

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world

Charles Ives 44 quotes

If idioms are more to be born...

If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man has grown up with--(not that one man's experience is better than another's, but that it is 'his.')--may give him something better in his substance and manner than an over-long period of superimposed idiomatic education which quite likely doesn't fit his constitution. My father used to say, '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 44 quotes

The word 'beauty' is as easy ...

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 44 quotes

Every great inspiration is bu...

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

Charles Ives 44 quotes

Stand up and take your disson...

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

Charles Ives 44 quotes

The future of music may not l...

The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than limits the aspirations and ideals of the people, in the way it makes itself a part with the finer things that humanity does and dreams of.

Charles Ives 44 quotes

An apparent confusion, if liv...

An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity

Charles Ives 44 quotes

Is not beauty in music too of...

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

Charles Ives 44 quotes

It is more important to keep ...

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

Charles Ives 44 quotes

In some century to come, when...

In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic is now--perhaps then these borderland experiences may be both easily expressed and readily recognized. But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense

Charles Ives 44 quotes

Please don't try to make thin...

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 44 quotes

A rare experience of a moment...

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

Charles Ives 44 quotes

But maybe music was not inten...

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

Charles Ives 44 quotes

Expression, to a great extent...

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.

Charles Ives 44 quotes

There can be nothing exclusiv...

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

Charles Ives 44 quotes

One thing I am certain of is ...

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 44 quotes

It is conceivable that what i...

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

Charles Ives 44 quotes

If a poet knows more about a ...

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 44 quotes

The fabric of existence weave...

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

Charles Ives 44 quotes

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