Quotes about John Philip Sousa

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own...

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

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

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I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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