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Quote by 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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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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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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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music. – Paul McCartney

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I dont like to be labeled, to be anything. Ive made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but its counter-productive. – Neil Young

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I dont think Id ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music. – Taylor Swift

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Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But theres something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, thats always been difficult for me. Im a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness. – Norah Jones

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I think were going to the moon because its in the nature of the human being to face challenges. Its by the nature of his deep inner soul… were required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream. – Neil Armstrong

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