Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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 a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world

Charles Ives's Popular Quotes

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

- Charles Ives

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

- Charles Ives

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

- Charles Ives

Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, …

- Charles Ives

I don't write music for sissy ears.

- Charles Ives

An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems …

- Charles Ives

Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced.

- Charles Ives

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

- Charles Ives

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

- Charles Ives