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Charles Ives

"If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven."

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"If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven."

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"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

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"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."

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"There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators."

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"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after."

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"Every day, I have a most embarrassing moment."

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"No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids."

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"Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor."

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"The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?"

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"Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth."
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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 day's unity."
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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."
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"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"
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"The fabric of existence weaves itself whole."
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"You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance."
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"Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world."
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"One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife."
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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."
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