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My God! What has sound got to do with music? — Charles Ives

It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes. — Charles Ives

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. — Charles Ives

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

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

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

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes. — David Ives

I don't write music for sissy ears. — Charles Ives

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 Ives

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. — David Ives

The king greeted the document (the Collectanea) not so much as a drowning man greets a straw but as he might a rescue party from outer space. — Eric Ives

Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it. — Terry Teachout

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings. — David 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 — Charles Ives

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

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well. — David Ives

I've always felt comfortable amongst the horrors. I married your uncle Gerard, after all. — Melika Dannese Lux

I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by. — Burl Ives

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

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

I missed New Jersey, primeval and green in the summer, a Currier and Ives painting in the winter. I missed hearing English sloppily spoken, — Anonymous

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole. — Charles Ives

Historians are not by and large inclined to supernatural explanations, but they are addicted to a near equivalent - 'inevitability'. — Eric Ives

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

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man. — 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. — Charles Ives

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. — David Ives

And here I am stronger and weaker for everything that happened and desperately grateful that this moment wasn't taken away. — Susanna Ives

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.' — David Ives

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives. — Charles Bukowski

I knew I was really there, because I was the thing his arms encircled, the thing his love defined. — Carolyn Ives Gilman

When you've set goals and dreams, you don't feel old. — Burl Ives

Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people. — Charles Ives

Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man. — Charles Ives

Have a holly jolly Christmas! — Burl Ives

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity. — Charles Ives

I'm perfectly natural the way I am. Why can't you humans ever understand that I might not want to be afflicted with gender? — Carolyn Ives Gilman

To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name. — Burl Ives

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. — Elliott Carter

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart. — David Ives

Powerlessness is such a lure, such a poisonous lure. — Carolyn Ives Gilman

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships. — David Ives