"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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"You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.“
-Charles Ives
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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."
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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."
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"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
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."
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