John Philip Sousa

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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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. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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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. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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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. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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

— John Philip Sousa

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My religion lies in my composition. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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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. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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Sincere composers believe in God. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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