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List of Charles Ives Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 34 inspiring quotes by Charles Ives.

About Charles Ives

  • Born: October 20, 1874
  • Died: May 19, 1954
  • Occupation: Composer
    • 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 Soul World
    For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art.
    Art Men Law
    Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.
    People Movement Forward Movement
    Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's.
    Expression Matter Term
    All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees.
    Heart Blood Sea
    It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
    May Form Composer
    In 'thinking up' music i usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
    Thinking Brass Bands Wings
    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
    Father Wife Done
    Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.
    Perfect Vagueness Indication
    Music is one of the ways that god has of beating in on man.
    Men Way Music Is
    If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man has grown up with--(not that one man's experience is better than another's, but that it is 'his.')--may give him something better in his substance and manner than an over-long period of superimposed idiomatic education which quite likely doesn't fit his constitution. my father used to say, 'if a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven'
    Horse Father Men
    If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
    Love Children Nice
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