Quotes of Charles Ives - somelinesforyou

“ Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity. ”

- Charles Ives

“ Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth. ”

- Charles Ives

“ In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind. ”

- Charles Ives

“ Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity. ”

- Charles Ives

“ Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity. ”

- Charles Ives

“ 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

“ In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind. ”

- Charles Ives

“ The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you. ”

- Charles Ives

“ The fabric of existence weaves itself whole. ”

- Charles Ives

“ Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth. ”

- Charles Ives

“ A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity. ”

- Charles Ives

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

- Charles Ives

“ 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

“ A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity. ”

- Charles Ives

“ 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

“ A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity. ”

- Charles Ives

“ 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

“ Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth. ”

- Charles Ives

“ Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth. ”

- Charles Ives

“ 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. ”

- Charles Ives

“ A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity. ”

- Charles Ives

“ 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. ”

- Charles Ives

“ Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth. ”

- Charles Ives

“ If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? ”

- Charles Ives

“ Every great inspiration is but an experiment. ”

- Charles Ives

“ 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

“ 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

“ A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity. ”

- Charles Ives

“ Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity. ”

- Charles Ives

“ But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. ”

- Charles Ives
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