"[Charles Ives] was exploring the 1960s during the heyday of Strauss and Debussy. Polytonality; atonality; tone clusters; perspectivistic effects; chance; statistical composition; permutation; add-a-pa…"

"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."

"All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols."

"My music is best understood by children and animals."

"Every time I compose, I think of a fresh way of doing it."