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John Philip Sousa Inspirational Quotes (22)

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
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My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.
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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.
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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.
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America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.
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Sincere composers believe in God.
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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.
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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
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Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
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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.
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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.
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No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
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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
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Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope.
John Philip Sousa