Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Charles Edward Iveswas an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though his music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, he came to be regarded as an "American original". He combined the American popular and church-music traditions of his youth with European art music, and was among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth20 October 1874
CityDanbury, CT
CountryUnited States of America
Charles Ives quotes about
Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?
The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than limits the aspirations and ideals of the people, in the way it makes itself a part with the finer things that humanity does and dreams of.
Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we are inclined to call them beautiful. Frequently, when a new or unfamiliar work is accepted as beautiful on its first hearing, its fundamental quality is one that tends to put the mind to sleep.
Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced.
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
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
Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.
In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
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
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.
Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's.
Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.
Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.