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Some Quotes by 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 pentatonic…
- If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man has grown up…
- If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse…
- In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
- If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
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