"My God! What has sound got to do…" — Charles Ives

"My God! What has sound got to do with music?"

— Charles Ives

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29 Quotes by Charles Ives

Charles Ives has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.
Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have…
The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or…
An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment…
In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be…
The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized
One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because…
If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that…
Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many…
I don't write music for sissy ears.
Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I…

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