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

  Charles Ives

  Men, Way, Music Is

  Newsletter, Institute for Studies in American Music, XXI, November 1, 1991.

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• One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife

  Charles Ives

  Father, Wife, Done

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• In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

  Charles Ives

  Thinking, Brass Bands, Wings

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• It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

  Charles Ives

  May, Form, Composer

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.36, 1st World Publishing

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• All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees.

  Charles Ives

  Heart, Blood, Sea

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.41, 1st World Publishing

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• Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's.

  Charles Ives

  Expression, Matter, Term

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.19, 1st World Publishing

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• Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

  Charles Ives

  People, Movement, Forward Movement

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• 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.

  Charles Ives

  Art, Men, Law

  Charles Ives, Stephen Drury (2012). “Piano sonata no. 2: "Concord" : with the Essays before a sonata”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world

  Charles Ives

  Expression, Soul, World

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.19, 1st World Publishing

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