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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."

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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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"I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures."

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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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