Curated Quotations

Charles Ives

Quotations

  • “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 Ives

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

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  • “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 Ives

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  • “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 Ives

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