"Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity." — Charles Ives
"Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity."
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Charles Ives
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29 Quotes by Charles Ives
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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…
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The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or…
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An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment…
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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…
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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…
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If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that…
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Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many…
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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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Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an…
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I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt…
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I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting…
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Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
— Ernie Banks
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with…
— Iain Banks
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An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.
— Javier Bardem
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The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any…
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Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other,…
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
— Jack Benny
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I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.
— Halle Berry
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The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them…
— Danny Boyle
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The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.
— Jeff Bridges
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