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

Quote by John Philip Sousa

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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...

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...

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...

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am...

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am...

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...

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....

My religion lies in my composition.

My religion lies in my composition.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in...

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in...

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

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

The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the...

The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the...

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he...

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he...

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...

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

Jazz is the music of the body

Jazz is the music of the body