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
Charles IvesBut maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
Charles IvesMost of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.
Charles Ives