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Composition Quotes by 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- I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader…
- To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
- My religion lies in my composition.
- 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…
- 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…
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- It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in… — Charles Caleb Colton
- The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good… — Joseph Addison
- My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote… — Annie Besant
- Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that… — Nick Clegg
- To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all. — Christopher Tunnard
- In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we… — Julia Cameron
- He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy… — Hector Hugh Munro
- As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the… — Isaac Newton