"I don't write music for sissy ears." — Charles Ives
"I don't write music for sissy ears."
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Charles Ives
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29 Quotes by Charles Ives
Charles Ives has 29 quotes on this site.
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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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My God! What has sound got to do with music?
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Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I…
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Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
— Victoria Abril
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I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
— David Attenborough
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the…
— Saint Augustine
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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the…
— Albert Bandura
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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise…
— Dave Barry
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch…
— John Adams
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I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
— Mario Batali
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves…
— Thomas Beecham
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I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
— Adele
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Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all…
— Robert Benchley
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