Author: Charles Ives

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

- Charles Ives

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