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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

The possibilities of percussio...

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

Charles Ives 44 quotes

One thing I am certain of is t...

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

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 carr

Charles Ives 44 quotes

Beauty in music is too often c...

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

I don't write music for sissy ...

I don't write music for sissy ears.

Charles Ives 44 quotes

Please don't try to make thing...

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

All melodious poets shall be h...

All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees.

Charles Ives 44 quotes

You cannot set art off in a co...

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

Charles Ives 44 quotes

Every great inspiration is but...

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

Charles Ives 44 quotes

In 'thinking up' music I usual...

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

Charles Ives 44 quotes

But maybe music was not intend...

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

The fabric of existence weaves...

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

Charles Ives 44 quotes

If a composer has a nice wife ...

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

Charles Ives 44 quotes

It is conceivable that what is...

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

My God! What has sound got to ...

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

Charles Ives 44 quotes

You cannot set art off in a co...

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

Charles Ives 44 quotes

Vagueness is at times an indic...

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

Charles Ives 44 quotes

There can be nothing exclusive...

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

The fabric of existence weaves...

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

Charles Ives 44 quotes

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