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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

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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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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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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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The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience. – Gloria Swanson

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A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. – Auguste Rodin

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Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent. – Jan Peter Balkenende

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Keep cool anger is not an argument. – Daniel Webster

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When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet. – Brian Ferneyhough

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San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. – Rudyard Kipling

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. – Oscar Wilde

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