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Charles Ives has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.
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Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?
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Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion…
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The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not…
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An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak,…
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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…
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The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized
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One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my…
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If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man…
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Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that…
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I don't write music for sissy ears.
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My God! What has sound got to do with music?
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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
— William Shakespeare
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If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man…
— Charles Ives
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It is not enough to know the Son of God in the Father's nature only, unless we acknowledge Him in what is…
— Pope Leo I
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I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully…
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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate…
— Henry David Thoreau
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No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Mary adored Jesus as the Bridegroom of souls. Union is the final purpose of love. Jesus by the gift of His substance…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his…
— Steven Pressfield
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