Brass Band Quotes by Charles Ives

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Charles Ives has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.
• Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?
• Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion…
• The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not…
• An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak,…
• In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete…
• The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized
• One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my…
• If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man…
• Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that…
• I don't write music for sissy ears.
• My God! What has sound got to do with music?

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