Quote by Charles Ives
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes dir

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

Other quotes by Charles Ives

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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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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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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Experience
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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. – Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

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Music is subjective to everyones unique experience. – Jared Leto

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Experience

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. – Fred Perry

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Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. – Jack Kingston

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I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. – Virgil

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I hated every minute of training, but I said, Dont quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. – Muhammad Ali

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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. – Oliver W. Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858

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Its only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous. – Ian Mckellen

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Marriage