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"Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back."
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"Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt."
"I could talk about him all day. He's one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me."
"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
"When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?"
"One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again."
"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
Explore more quotes by Charles Ives
"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."
"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."
"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."
"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."
"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."
"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"
"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."
"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."
"In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind."
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