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.
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.
The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than limits the aspirations and ide… - Charles Ives
The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than limits the aspirations and ide…
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?
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
An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems …
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