Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration. — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people. — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than limits the… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance. — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
