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.
The fabric of existence weaves itself whole. - Charles Ives
The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.
- Charles Ives
Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity. - Charles Ives
Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance. - Charles Ives
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
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
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, …
I don't write music for sissy ears. - Charles Ives
I don't write music for sissy ears.
Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced. - Charles Ives
Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced.
My God! What has sound got to do with music? - Charles Ives
My God! What has sound got to do with music?
Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair? - Charles Ives
Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?
Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way. - 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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