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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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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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You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance. – 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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My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isnt because I wanted to make simple music. Its because I dont really have the chops. – Norah Jones

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I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if Im white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them. – Kid Rock

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