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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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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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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Experience
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My music had roots which Id dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. – Ray Charles

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Well-written words are music. – William Shatner

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Music is the poetry of the air. – Richter

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Pop music has progressed. – Steven Patrick Morrissey

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