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Compositions 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- I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader…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.
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- The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where… — Tacitus
- I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it… — Hugo Wolf
- On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,'… — Niccolo Paganini
- All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters… — Corinne Heline
- Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. — Horace
- A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous… — William Hazlitt
- And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started… — Joan Collins
- When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed… — Richard Avedon
- If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make… — Socrates
- Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not… — Unknown Author
- My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs. — Franz Schubert
- If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all… — Unknown Author