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Music Quotes by John Philip Sousa
- Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
- Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
- 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…
- The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.
- To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
- 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…
- I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
- Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
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