37 Quotes by Charles Ives

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

For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art.

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

I don't write music for sissy ears.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

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

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

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