"You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance."
-Charles Ives
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"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
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