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.

Quote by John Philip Sousa

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Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its...

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its...

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their...

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their...

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another...

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another...

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their...

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their...

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the...

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the...

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their...

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their...

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a...

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a...

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and...

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and...

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I...

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I...

Sincere composers believe in God.

Sincere composers believe in God.

There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to...

There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to...

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world....

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world....

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in...

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in...

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is...

I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is...

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I...

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I...

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and...

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and...

I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his...

I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his...