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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

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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

Topics: Always Better Curious Extravagant Hope Intended Language Man May Maybe Most Music Satisfy Sense Transcendental

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

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Topics: Every Experiment Great Inspiration Know Though

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There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

~Charles Ives

Topics: About Art Directly Exclusive Experience Heart Life Living Living Life Nothing Out Substantial Thinking

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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

Topics: Anyone Billion Expression Extent God Great Great Extent Interpretations Many Matter May Meaning Meaning Of Souls Terms World

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

~Charles Ives

Topics: Children Composer He His How Nice Some Starve Wife

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The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

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Topics: Existence Fabric Itself Whole

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

~Charles Ives

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

~Charles Ives

Topics: Back Band Brass Kind Mind Music Some Thinking Up Wings

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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

Topics: About Better Carry Day Does He Heaven Him Horse Knows May Might More Poet Some Stick Than

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Composer

Born: October 20th, 1874

Died: May 19th, 1954

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