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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
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 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
Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.
— Terry Teachout
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
I've always felt comfortable amongst the horrors. I married your uncle Gerard, after all.
— Melika Dannese Lux
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
— Charles Ives
The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.
— Charles 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
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
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
