top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Every great inspiration is but an experiment."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Inspirational quotes
"Night is the fatherland of the great inspirations."
"Like the evangelist, I will shine with the light I have been shown, recognise that I have the ultimate solution for all my prospects, nurture that feeling deep within, and repeat the words to myself every day, until there is no doubt in my mind that keeping such good news hidden would be the very worst type of sin."
"My intention was, only, ever to help you see the light shining brightly in front, and inside, of you."
"Nunca habría sido capaz de decírselo, pero Owen me inspiraba. Las mentiras piadosas que yo decía a diario, las cosas que me guardaba, cada vez que no era sincera del todo... ahora me daba cuenta de eso. También era consciente de lo bien que me sentaba al ser capaz de decirle a alguien lo que pensaba de veras. Aunque solo fuera sobre música."
"Why does she have wings?'So she can fly."
"Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death."
"Beauty will save the world."
"Self-education is lifelong curiosity."
"Hail to thee blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert That from Heaven or near it Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"
"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."
"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."
"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."
bottom of page