"But maybe music was not intended to satisfy……" — Charles Ives
"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 language in the most extravagant sense."
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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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