It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes. — 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
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity — Charles Ives
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? — Charles Ives
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance. — Charles Ives
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of — Charles Ives
