Famous Quotes / Charles Ives
8 Quotations by Charles Ives
- 1. A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousnes ...
- 2. Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.
- 3. Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' ma ...
- 4. If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his diss ...
- 5. If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, an ...
- 6. In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
- 7. Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.
- 8. You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.