Charles Ives — American Composer born on October 20, 1874, died on May 19, 1954

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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.
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?
In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.