Charles Edward Ives quotes and words of wisdom |  | "Reber [Johnson; a violinist] also got off another one, after I"d
played over the Second Violin Sonata for him?that harmless piece. "After
stuff like that"?he said?"if you consider that music, and like it, how can
you like Brahms or any good music?" That is a very common attitude among
almost all the well known lilies. They take it [i.e., that attitude] for
granted?a kind of self-evident axiom, a settled-for-life matter, ipso
facto, admitting of no argument. The classical is good for all time, the
modern is bad for all time?so if you like one, you can"t like the other.
Describing the reaction of a typical professional musician to his, and
other twentieth-century, compositions. "Lilies" was one of Ives" names for
most of the concert goers of his era, who expected all music to be
conventional and pretty." | |  | Found in the topic Music.
| | | "I don"t write music for sissy ears." | | | Found in the topic Unsorted.
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Interesting Quotes
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.Muhammad Ali - US boxer (1942 - )
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.W. Somerset Maugham - English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)
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