Quote by Charles Ives
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definitene

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

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Hope
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There 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 Ives

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Experience
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God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope. – Maya Angelou

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Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isnt permanent. – Jean Kerr

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For now, Im just going to keep doing the work and hope I dont get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, Ill love it. – Ryan Gosling

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The Middle East is hopeful. Theres hope there. – Joe Biden

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Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. – Henry Ford

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We have to be active about kindness and about peace. Ive always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace. – Dave Matthews

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You mustnt underestimate an audiences intelligence. – Marvin Hamlisch

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Excessive reservations and paralyzing despondency have not helped the sciences to advance nor are they helping them to advance, but a healthy optimism that cheerfully searches for new ways to understand, as it is convinced that it will be possible to find them. – Alois Alzheimer

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