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Top 25 Charles E. Ives Quotes (2024 Update)

Charles E. Ives Quote: “Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.”

1. “Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.”

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized.”

2. “The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized.”

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.”

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

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “Please don’t try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have – I want it that way.”

4. “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 E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?”

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

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.”

6. “The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.”

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “Every great inspiration is but an experiment.”

7. “Every great inspiration is but an experiment.”

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “Every great inspiration is but an experiment – though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.”

8. “Every great inspiration is but an experiment – though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.”

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “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 ideals of the people, in the way it makes itself a part with the finer things that humanity does and dreams of.”

9. “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 ideals of the people, in the way it makes itself a part with the finer things that humanity does and dreams of.”

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.”

10. “Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.”

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “I don’t write music for sissy ears.”

11. “I don’t write music for sissy ears.”

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?”

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

— Charles E. Ives

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

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

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “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.”

14. “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 E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees.”

15. “All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees.”

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “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.”

16. “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 E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “My God! What has sound got to do with music?”

17. “My God! What has sound got to do with music?”

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “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.”

18. “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 E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “In ‘thinking up’ music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.”

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

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ear lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we are inclined to call them beautiful. Frequently – possibly almost invariably – analytical and impersonal test will show that when a new or unfamiliar work is accepted as beautiful on its first hearing, its fundamental quality is one that tends to put the mind to sleep.”

20. “Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ear lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we are inclined to call them beautiful. Frequently – possibly almost invariably – analytical and impersonal test will show that when a new or unfamiliar work is accepted as beautiful on its first hearing, its fundamental quality is one that tends to put the mind to sleep.”

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.”

21. “One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.”

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “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.”

22. “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 E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.”

23. “Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.”

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced.”

24. “Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced.”

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.”

25. “It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.”

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art.”

26. “For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art.”

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.”

27. “It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.”

— Charles E. Ives

Charles E. Ives Quote: “Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone’s.”

28. “Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone’s.”

— Charles E. Ives

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