Charles Ives
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CHARLES MUSIC As we grow, we have to do a better job of treating the waste. CHARLES MUSIC The most important element to jazz music is being able to improvise. You learn the language of the m... ERIC ESSEX URSULA K. LE GUIN SAM HUNT BABYFACE Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the phil... ROBERT FRIPP JODI PICOULT MARGOT BENARY-ISBERT Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something... IAN MACKAYE JAMES JOSEPH SYLVESTER So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy'... JAMES YOUNG There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any tim... ZOKETSU NORMAN FISCHER BRYAN ADAMS Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not... TAYLOR HACKFORD JEFFREY FRY POST MALONE WIM WENDERS What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, m... CARL MARIA VON WEBER Our inmost yearning, our deep desire for harmony in an extra-musical, transcendental sense feels aff... BRUNO WALTER PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA I don't think that happens to golfers too often. But maybe my swing is better than it was before the... DAVID HOWELL He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it ... LAURA ADAMS ARMER I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way. BRIAN MOLKO MARTIN LUTHER ROGER EBERT Music has often been compared with language itself, and the comparison is quite legitimate. While it... SIGMUND SPAETH TEDDY THOMPSON LOU REED Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music. T.L. RESE "Live. Breathe. It is not fear that we need to live by, but joy, hope. Inside you, in your ocean, ma... MAHARAJI I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's... MAC DEMARCO CRAIG GROESCHEL Maybe it's not in the perfection of life that things make sense, but in the chaos. RACHEL VAN DYKEN GERMANY KENT When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's s... ERIC BETZIG I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessaril... AHMET ERTEGUN HUNTER S. THOMPSON JAMES WELDON JOHNSON DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU HUNTER S. THOMPSON GERMANY KENT I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my prot... FLORENCE WELCH Maybe in 10 or 15 years when the music has died down. TIM MCGRAW 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON STING Hope is a curious thing. You always seem to loose it when you most need it. P.B. MCILRATH Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always h... AARON CARTER JAMES WELDON JOHNSON YO-YO MA DENNIS LEHANE But maybe I am. Maybe that’s exactly what I am. Maybe all I wanted was for Toby to hear the wolves... CAROL RIFKA BRUNT JOHN MAYER It's awesome to me the number of people who don't really know who you are, but who're finding this m... KENNY CHESNEY KATHLEEN EDWARDS PSY JAMES CAMERON We know that teenagers aren't going to be swayed by dire warnings, but we know they love music, and ... HEATHER FERGUSON My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 190... ELLIOTT CARTER Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music. AFROJACK We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things - maybe not as much in... CHRIS STAPLETON ROBERT A. SCHUMANN STORMZY I'm a very visually motivated person. Music is always going to be the thing I'm most motivat... ELIZA DOOLITTLE ACE FREHLEY I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three e... DAVID FOSTER Nobody should be satisfied in this game. Maybe Barry Bonds, but maybe even he wants to be better. CHASE UTLEY DAMON ALBARN PETER USTINOV There were audiences for the first time in living memory. People were discussing modern music. Maybe... PHILIP GLASS SHANIA TWAIN Art is never finished, only abandoned. , (MAYBE) VAN MORRISON BOB MARLEY The concert is intended to raise scholarship funds for the School of Music. JAMES LYON CHAD HUGO BELA BARTOK When you limit the word 'jazz' to one period of history, for the people who love that period... HIROMI UEHARA ROBERT WYATT TOBA BETA But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I... FLORENCE WELCH Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better. VINCE STAPLES Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of... JEFF TWEEDY CRAIG GROESCHEL During those days this group didn't go with the flow. We always went with this music ? the music tha... DAVE RICHARDSON The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music... EMMANUEL LUBEZKI JEFFREY EUGENIDES
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In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of ... CHARLES IVES A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousnes... CHARLES IVES Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of '... CHARLES IVES Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspi... CHARLES IVES Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth. CHARLES IVES It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless t... CHARLES IVES In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones-when t... CHARLES IVES The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized. CHARLES IVES If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, an... 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 Now if you look out of that window and enjoy the mountains, how can you possibly look out of this wi... CHARLES IVES You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance. CHARLES IVES Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' ma... CHARLES IVES A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousnes... CHARLES IVES There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the expe... CHARLES IVES One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of ... CHARLES IVES The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or do... CHARLES IVES You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and ... CHARLES IVES Memories: (A) Very Pleasant; (B) Rather Sad. CHARLES IVES If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his diss... CHARLES IVES The fabric of existence weaves itself whole. CHARLES IVES I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned ... BURL IVES The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before m... BURL IVES Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is n... DAVID IVES How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where... BURL IVES I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. S... BURL IVES Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. DAVID IVES Captive Audience DAVID IVES Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or fami... DAVID IVES Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only wri... DAVID IVES He struggled with black and white. But when he got to Arles in 1888, he discovered the reed pen, and... COLTA IVES Drawing really changed the way he painted, once he realized he could draw his paintings in his own q... COLTA IVES This documentary is the first attempt since 1957 to revisit the thoughts and ideas of Albert Schweit... DAVID IVES The goal of the conference is to revive the interest and knowledge about Albert Schweitzer and the h... DAVID IVES That was really neat to see. DUEY IVES He's wrestling really confident, moving well. DUEY IVES Had they forfeited to Diaz (275) and wrestled Green . . . DUEY IVES Drawings have always been the P.S. part of van Gogh's work. Yet he was a letter writer, a guy with a... COLTA IVES Drawings have always been the P.S. part of van Gogh's work, ... Yet he was a letter writer, a guy wi... COLTA IVES I hoped that students would emotionally connect to the people and problems they saw around them and ... DAVID IVES I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more re... DAVID IVES All in the Timing. DAVID IVES [Drawing didn't always come easy.] He struggled with black and white, ... But when he got to Arles i... COLTA IVES With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two ... DAVID IVES I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes. DAVID IVES Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of ... DAVID IVES I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. DAVID IVES Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only... DAVID IVES I'm perfectly natural the way I am. Why can't you humans ever understand that I might not want to be... CAROLYN IVES GILMAN Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. CHARLES You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'St... CHARLES DANCE CHARLES DICKENS CHARLES SPURGEON CHARLES SPURGEON CHARLES SPURGEON CHARLES SPURGEON CHARLES SPURGEON CHARLES SPURGEON CHARLES SPURGEON CHARLES SAATCHI CHARLES DICKENS CHARLES EAMES CHARLES EAMES CHARLES EAMES CHARLES EAMES CHARLES EAMES CHARLES EAMES CHARLES EAMES CHARLES EAMES CHARLES EAMES CHARLES EAMES CHARLES EAMES CHARLES BUKOWSKI CHARLES KINGSLEY Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. CHARLES SIMIC CHARLES SPURGEON Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that&... CHARLES MINGUS CHARLES BABBAGE CHARLES BABBAGE CHARLES BABBAGE CHARLES BABBAGE CHARLES BABBAGE CHARLES BABBAGE CHARLES BABBAGE CHARLES BABBAGE CHARLES BABBAGE CHARLES BABBAGE CHARLES BABBAGE CHARLES BABBAGE CHARLES BABBAGE CHARLES BABBAGE CHARLES BABBAGE CHARLES BABBAGE CHARLES BABBAGE CHARLES BABBAGE CHARLES DICKENS CHARLES SPURGEON There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, yo... CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER CHARLES LINDBERGH CHARLES V CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES SPURGEON You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working i... 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Liverpool being quite racist i... CRAIG CHARLES CHARLES BARKLEY CHARLES DICKENS CHARLES KENNEDY I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me fee... CHARLES PLATT CHARLES LINDBERGH I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a... CHARLES COMISKEY CHARLES BUXTON CHARLES KENNEDY CHARLES KINGSLEY CHARLES LAMB Audiences seem to have a limitless appetite for vampires and for fantasy in general. Unlike many oth... CHARLES DANCE CHARLES SAATCHI CHARLES WOLFE I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pompos... CHARLES KIMBROUGH A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any... CHARLES TUPPER My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that mom... CHARLES KELLEY CHARLES DICKENS CHARLES PEGUY CHARLES MONTESQUIEU CHARLES MACKAY Those who think in Britain they can push the Brexit button and not have a bill to pay are seriously ... CHARLES MICHEL In Britain ever more, they will realize that Brexit, well, has consequences - economic, commercial, ... CHARLES MICHEL God buries His workmen but carries on His work. CHARLES WESLEY CHARLES READE CHARLES HUGHES CHARLES HUGHES CHARLES DICKENS CHARLES DICKENS CHARLES DARWIN CHARLES DARWIN CHARLES DARWIN CHARLES DARWIN CHARLES DARWIN CHARLES DARWIN CHARLES DARWIN CHARLES DUHIGG Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. CHARLES RICHARDS CHARLES DUHIGG CHARLES SCHWAB CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer instal... CHARLES PLATT I was an enormous fan of Dan Slott's run, and John Byrne's run was a big deal for me. I foun... 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Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason of how or why the... 
The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor,... 
Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music o... 
I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environm... 
But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherev... 
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say ... 
Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be d... 
I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different ... 
For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love. 
Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars. 
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The ... 
I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, bu... 
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. 
My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music. 
Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it co... 
Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the g... 
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirat... 
Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart a... 
I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not th... 
Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action. 
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... 
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characte... 
But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music. 
Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run… but no explanation, no mix of words or music... 
I think I've always had a sort of fantasy or dream that I would like to make a living playing music.... 
Early on he was thinking somehow in the recesses of his mind that 'Hey, maybe we should do that,' an... 
Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had a... 
Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but ... 
I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been ... 
The world's most famous and popular language is music. 
I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect... 
For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond 
I'm not mad into raving, to be honest. If it's not music, I'm chilling. But most of the ... 
For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more a... 
I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences... 
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most c... 
Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigge... 
The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. 
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts... 
When I was growing up, there were parties that I went to that were mostly Filipinos and maybe a coup... 
Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible ma... 
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that m... 
It is said that music is a universal language, but it can't be concluded that everybody knows music.... 
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. 
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. 
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. 
How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ... 
'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ... 
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. 
Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explai... 
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entir... 
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. 
We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next. 
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act. 
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'... 
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what tru... 
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have bee... 
Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. 
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscan... 
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. 
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. 
One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to h... 
A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight. 
A man can preach no better than he prays. 
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. 
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a fami... 
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take... 
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in... 
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something. 
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss. 
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure... 
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon... 
Iron hand in a velvet glove. 
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill... 
I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white. 
'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the c... 
You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the van... 
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rust... 
I could never hate anyone I knew. 
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more... 
Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, ... 
We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is official... 
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. 
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms ... 
Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait. 
The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if th... 
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will al... 
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. 
Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue ... 
You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your d... 
As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand wha... 
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on... 
I'd rather go by bus. 
This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers. 
Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perf... 
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. 
I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much belove... 