--- title: "1 God Sound Quotes By Charles Ives" description: "1 God Sound quotes by Charles Ives. Plus more from Charles Ives and more God Sound sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf1/charles-ives-17391_funny_my-god-what-has-sound-got-to-do-with-mus_1380010.png" --- > [My God! What has sound got to do with music?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ives/my-god-what-has-sound-got-to-do-with-music/) [Charles Ives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ives/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf1/charles-ives-17391_funny_my-god-what-has-sound-got-to-do-with-mus_1380010.png) ## More by Charles Ives > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ives/expression-to-a-great-extent-is-a-matter-of-terms-and-terms-are/) [Charles Ives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ives/) > [I don't write music for sissy ears.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ives/i-don-t-write-music-for-sissy-ears/) [Charles Ives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ives/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ives/in-some-century-to-come-when-the-school-children-will-whistle-popular/) [Charles Ives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ives/) > [It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ives/it-is-conceivable-that-what-is-unified-form-to-the-author-or-composer/) [Charles Ives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ives/) > [A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ives/a-rare-experience-of-a-moment-at-daybreak-when-something-in-nature/) [Charles Ives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ives/) > [Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ives/most-of-the-forward-movements-of-life-in-general-have-been-the-work/) [Charles Ives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ives/) > [There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ives/there-can-be-nothing-exclusive-about-substantial-art-it-comes/) [Charles Ives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ives/) > [The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than limits the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ives/the-future-of-music-may-not-lie-entirely-in-music-itself-but-rather/) [Charles Ives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ives/) > [An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ives/an-apparent-confusion-if-lived-with-long-enough-may-become-orderly-a/) [Charles Ives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ives/) > [The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ives/the-possibilities-of-percussion-sounds-i-believe-have-never-been/) [Charles Ives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ives/) > [Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ives/beauty-in-music-is-too-often-confused-with-something-that-lets-the/) [Charles Ives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ives/) > [Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ives/stand-up-and-take-your-dissonance-like-a-man/) [Charles Ives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ives/) > [A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ives/a-song-has-a-few-rights-the-same-as-ordinary-citizens-if-it-happens/) [Charles Ives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ives/) > [You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ives/you-cannot-set-art-off-in-a-corner-and-hope-for-it-to-have-vitality/) [Charles Ives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ives/) > [But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ives/but-maybe-music-was-not-intended-to-satisfy-the-curious-definiteness/) [Charles Ives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ives/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/god-sound/charles-ives/#itemlist", "name": "1 God Sound Quotes By Charles Ives", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My God! 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