Author: Charles Ives

Quotes

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

- Charles Ives

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

- Charles Ives

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

- Charles Ives

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

- Charles Ives

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.

- Charles Ives

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

- Charles Ives

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.

- Charles Ives

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