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Charles Ives Quotes: Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.
         

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.


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The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized



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Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.



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



I don't write music for sissy ears.

I don't write music for sissy ears.



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.

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.



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.

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.



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A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?



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





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