Charles Ives Quotes

Charles Ives
Charles Ives
American Composer
Born: Oct 20, 1874
Died: May 19, 1954
Art Composer Day His Music Thinking
Related authors: Eubie Blake George Crumb John Cage John Williams Leonard Bernstein Oscar Levant Stephen Sondheim Virgil Thomson
A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity. Charles Ives
Day Nature Experience Rare Unity Seems Something Part Daybreak Reveal Noon Cannot Explained Moment Consciousness
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
Hope Music Man Better Language Sense Extravagant Most Always Curious Intended May Maybe Transcendental Satisfy
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
Life Art Heart Experience Nothing Living Thinking Out About Directly Exclusive Substantial Living Life
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? Charles Ives
Wife Nice Starve Composer Some He How His Children
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
Day Better Poet Carry Some About More Horse He Him Knows Stick Does Than May Heaven Might

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