"Please don't try to make things nice! All……" — Charles Ives
"Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way."
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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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