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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Charles Ives
People, Movement, Forward Movement

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

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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