If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
Charles IvesIt is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
Charles IvesMost of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.
Charles IvesIf 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.
Charles Ives