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 IvesIn 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
Charles IvesThere 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.
Charles IvesIn some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic is now--perhaps then these borderland experiences may be both easily expressed and readily recognized. But 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 Ives