Quotes by John Philip Sousa - Page 1

Sincere composers believe in God.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Believe
Believe In God
Sincere
Composers
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My religion lies in my composition.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Religion
Composition
Lying
Lies
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You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer
John Philip Sousa / Composer
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A band is only as good as its euphonium section.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Band
Sections
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The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Blue
Shields
White
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My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Success
Congratulations
People
Superiority
Success People Success Is
Due
Personal
Success Is
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Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Composer
People
Sound
Above
Good Music People
Good Music Bad
Composers
Good Music
Sounds
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The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Alaska
Average
Conditions
Lovers
Prevailing
Hears
Production
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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Music
Endure
Feet
Free Jazz
Jazz
Long
Brains
Through
Hear
Instead
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Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Music
Heart
Touching
Writing
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No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Art
America
Young
Arts
Nation
Immediately
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America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
America
Numbers
People
Composers
Develop
Expect
Goodly
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I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Paper
Twenties
Writing
Hour
Pencil
Twenty-Four
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Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Beauty
Appeals
Most Powerful
Opera
Powerful
Stage
Almost
Entirely
Grand
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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 / Composer
Teacher
Effort
Teaching
Believed
Due
Student
Efforts
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The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Men
Apes
Tails
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To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Average
Commonplace
Mean
Mind
Popular Music
Treatment
Conceived
False
Popular
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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 / Composer
Chill
Cold
Musician
Spiritual
Deadliest
Physical
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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 / Composer
Believe
Composer
Conscious
Higher
Inspiration
Receives
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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 / Composer
Childhood
Desire
Musician
Real
Recollection
Anything Else
Fond
Passionately
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Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Dance
Inspirational
Inspiring
Love
Life
Marriage
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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 / Composer
Beauty
Bows
Composer
Creation
Lying
Remember
Violinist
Bow
Lie
Mightier
Pen
Possibilities
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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.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Believe
Country
Giving
Hearing
Impulse
Leader
Young Writers
Writers
Unpublished
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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 / Composer
Travel
Companion
Hunting
Pleasure
Son
I Am Happy I Am Happy
Expedition
Recall
Whenever
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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 / Composer
Teacher
Advantage
Judging
Light
Temperament
Judge
Teachers
Foreign
Lights
Shadows
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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 / Composer
Quality
Band
Effort
Pleasant
Thinking
Efforts
Improved
Perhaps
Steadily
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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.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Artistic
Assistance
Development
Facilitate
Genius
Routine
Aid
Although
Drawback
Impediment
Production
Rather
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I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather by vice—of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Deterioration
Machines
Vices
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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 / Composer
Respect
Believe
Cities
Equal
Listeners
World
Best Respect World
Best Believe World
Audiences
Highly
Perhaps
Satisfactory
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I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.
John Philip Sousa / Composer
Music
America
Believe
Country
Land
Musical
Musical Talent
Process
Talent
Time Good Music
Time Good Believe
Lot
Everyone
Any
Any Other Country
Dig
Good Music
Firmly
Must
Hear
Takes
Throughout
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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 / Composer
Composition
Conductor
Dramatic
Form
Heart
Heart And Soul
Ideas
Soul
Life Business Music
Central
Convey
Enter
Successfully
Tale
Unfolds
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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 / Composer
Accord
Interpreting
Mannerisms
Time I Am Me
Picture
Naturally
Time Me I Am
Discussed
Movements
Repress
Widely
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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 / Composer
Men
Deeper
Earth
Engaged
Office
President
Realization
Seems
Weaving
Greatest
Background
Came
Great One
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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 / Composer
Adapted
Balance
Cases
Combination
Composition
Equal
Interpretation
Modern Music
Obvious
Orchestra
Satisfying
Wind
Although
Originally
Reasons
String
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