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«The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized.»
Author: Charles Ives
«You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that's what I love about music, it can bring people together.»
Author: 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.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Charles Ives
«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.»
Author: Charles Ives
«In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones-when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic is now-perhaps then these borderland experiences may be both easily expressed and readily recognized.»
Author: Charles Ives
«Memories: (A) Very Pleasant; (B) Rather Sad.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Charles Ives
«Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Charles Ives
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