John Philip Sousa

Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#music

I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#am #any #companion #expedition #happy

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

#american #foreign #indisputable #judge #lights

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#due #other #over #people #personal

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

#chill #cold #deadliest #freezes #more

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

— John Philip Sousa

#amount #composers #develop #expect #goodly

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#believed #due #efforts #his #i

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#believe #composer #conscious #gloriously #higher

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#anybody #heart #music #public #quite

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

#although #artistic #assistance #development #drawback