Top 71 Quotes About Ives
#1. I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.
Mark Helprin
#2. I missed New Jersey, primeval and green in the summer, a Currier and Ives painting in the winter. I missed hearing English sloppily spoken,
Anonymous
#3. In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
Elliott Carter
#4. I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college.
Elliott Carter
#5. Nobody here wants Competition,' Ives LeSpark re-entering, shaking his head gravely. 'All wish but to name their Price, and maintain it, without the extra work and worry all these damn'd Up-starts require.
Thomas Pynchon
#6. The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.
John Dyer
#7. Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.
Terry Teachout
#8. Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.
Charles Bukowski
#9. Sara had grown up in a Balavati family, which meant she had been taught to reject all articles of faith except disrespect for authority, the lodestone of her life.
Carolyn Ives Gilman
#10. I'm perfectly natural the way I am. Why can't you humans ever understand that I might not want to be afflicted with gender?
Carolyn Ives Gilman
#11. And here I am stronger and weaker for everything that happened and desperately grateful that this moment wasn't taken away.
Susanna Ives
#12. I've always felt comfortable amongst the horrors. I married your uncle Gerard, after all.
Melika Dannese Lux
#13. All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees.
Charles Ives
#14. It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.
Charles Ives
#15. 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.
Charles Ives
#16. Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
David Ives
#17. I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important.
Burl Ives
#18. All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.
David Ives
#19. The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than limits the aspirations and ideals of the people, in the way it makes itself a part with the finer things that humanity does and dreams of.
Charles Ives
#20. Trials are a part of life, but there is value in sometimes experiencing adversity which will test (and so strengthen) our faith and also build an understanding of God and ourselves.
Eric Ives
#21. Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have
I want it that way.
Charles Ives
#23. How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.
Burl Ives
#24. Historians are not by and large inclined to supernatural explanations, but they are addicted to a near equivalent - 'inevitability'.
Eric Ives
#26. Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.
David Ives
#27. Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.
David Ives
#28. For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art.
Charles Ives
#29. 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.
Charles Ives
#30. Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.
Charles Ives
#31. 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.
Charles Ives
#32. With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'
David Ives
#33. I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.
David Ives
#34. I knew I was really there, because I was the thing his arms encircled, the thing his love defined.
Carolyn Ives Gilman
#35. The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.
Burl Ives
#36. I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a story in cinematic ways, but theater is a much more elusive craft.
David Ives
#37. 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.
Charles Ives
#38. To die this way seems so random, so trivial. I have been robbed of meaning before being robbed of life. To die in darkness, alone -- for what purpose was I ever alive. It is as if I emerged from darkness into delusion, then sank back into darkness forever.
Carolyn Ives Gilman
#39. Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.
David Ives
#41. What kind of word is 'methodal'?" David asked. "A buzzword," Ashok answered, this time himself. "Methodal. Sounds like a drug." "That's what buzzwords are. Tranquilizers." "Thought suppressants, you mean.
Carolyn Ives Gilman
#42. Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.
Charles Ives
#43. In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
Charles Ives
#44. Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
David Ives
#45. I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.
David Ives
#46. Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.
Charles Ives
#47. I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.
Burl Ives
#48. The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason he buys everything he can is because of some crazy hope that one of the things he buys will be life everlasting.
Burl Ives
#49. When you've set goals and dreams, you don't feel old.
Burl Ives
#50. You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
Charles Ives
#51. My God! What has sound got to do with music?
Charles Ives
#52. I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.
Burl Ives
#53. Captivating to men, Anne was also sharp, assertive, subtle, calculating, vindictive, a power dresser and a power player, perhaps a figure to be more admired than liked.
Eric Ives
#54. I got into a brawl one night in a saloon in Greenwich Village. Elia Kazan, a great director, saw me put out a couple of hecklers and figures there was some Big Daddy in me, just lyin' dormant. And out it came. People still do call me Big Daddy, but to me, inside, I'm no Big Daddy at all.
Burl Ives
#55. Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?
Charles Ives
#56. The king greeted the document (the Collectanea) not so much as a drowning man greets a straw but as he might a rescue party from outer space.
Eric Ives
#57. Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.
Charles Ives
#58. If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
Charles Ives
#59. I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.
Burl Ives
#60. The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you
Charles Ives
#61. Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.
Charles Ives
#62. A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens ... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly ... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?
Charles Ives
#63. Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.
David Ives
#64. To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.
Burl Ives
#65. It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
Charles Ives
#66. Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.
Charles Ives
#67. Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please?
David Ives
#68. The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.
Charles Ives
#69. The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized
Charles Ives
#70. 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.
Charles Ives
#71. 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.
Charles Ives
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