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John Philip Sousa

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

– John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa

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

John Philip Sousa

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

John Philip Sousa

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

– John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa

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

– John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa

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

John Philip Sousa

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

John Philip Sousa

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

– John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa

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

John Philip Sousa

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

John Philip Sousa

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.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

John Philip Sousa

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

– John Philip Sousa

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