The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

- Charles Ives

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

- Charles Ives

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

- 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

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

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