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" My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people. "
John Philip Sousa
Success Is
Personal
People
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" I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country. "
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" Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself. "
John Philip Sousa
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" There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying. "
John Philip Sousa
Balance
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" I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality. "
John Philip Sousa
Thought
Bands
Band
" I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect. "
John Philip Sousa
Best
Respect
World
" Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing. "
John Philip Sousa
Heart
Touching
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" Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius. "
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May
Routine
True
" My religion lies in my composition. "
John Philip Sousa
Composition
Lies
Religion
" Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty. "
John Philip Sousa
You
Beauty
Lie
" To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. "
John Philip Sousa
Mean
Mind
Would
" I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes. "
John Philip Sousa
I Can
Always
Pencil
" American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows. "
John Philip Sousa
Lights
American
Judge
" The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man. "
John Philip Sousa
American
Earth
Great
" Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music. "
John Philip Sousa
Powerful
Music
Beauty
" Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. "
John Philip Sousa
People
Will
Endure
" America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people. "
John Philip Sousa
People
Number
She
" No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts. "
John Philip Sousa
Power
Nation
Arts
" Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds. "
John Philip Sousa
Only
People
Music
" The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed. "
John Philip Sousa
I Am
Time
Know
" I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him. "
John Philip Sousa
Hunting
I Am
Happy
" From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else. "
John Philip Sousa
Childhood
Desire
Music
" Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds? "
John Philip Sousa
Music
Life
Idea
" There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience! "
John Philip Sousa
Audience
Cold
More
" I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher. "
John Philip Sousa
Teacher
Progress
Student
" Sincere composers believe in God. "
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Composers
Sincere
God
" The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions. "
John Philip Sousa
Average
Production
Only