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Music Quotes by Charles Ives
- Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?
- 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…
- One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second,…
- Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used…
- I don't write music for sissy ears.
- My God! What has sound got to do with music?
- In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
- 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…
- Every great inspiration is but an experiment.
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