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
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
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
The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized
If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man has grown up with--(not that one man's experience is better than another's, but that it is 'his.')--may give him something better in his substance and manner than an over-long period of superimposed idiomatic education which quite likely doesn't fit his constitution. My father used to say, 'If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven'
Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.
Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.
My God! What has sound got to do with music?
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
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.
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
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.
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.