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title: "2 Maybe Music Quotes By Charles Ives"
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> [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…](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/)

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> [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.](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/)

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## 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/)

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