Quote by Charles Ives
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitalit

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance. – Charles Ives

Other quotes by Charles Ives

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

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Hope
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A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the days unity. – Charles Ives

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Experience
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A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens… if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly… to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it? – Charles Ives

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Music
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Other Quotes from
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I doubt Ill be singing forever, because at some point people arent going to want to hear my music, and I hope that Ill still get the opportunity to write songs. – Adele

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Hope

Lets hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply wont buy. – Simon Mainwaring

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Hope

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope. – Thomas Carlyle

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Hope

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again. – Oliver North

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Hope

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The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas…. – Charles Dickens

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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadnt. – Ernest Hemingway

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I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. – Anaïs Nin (1903–1977), journal, January 1927

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New Year

For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese peoples faces. – Michael Chang

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smile