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Browse top 22 most favorite famous quotes and sayings by John Philip Sousa.

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1. "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
2. "Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds." ~ John Philip Sousa
3. "I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes." ~ John Philip Sousa
4. "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
5. "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." ~ John Philip Sousa
6. "America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people." ~ John Philip Sousa
7. "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
8. "Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing." ~ John Philip Sousa
9. "Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music." ~ John Philip Sousa
10. "No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts." ~ John Philip Sousa
11. "The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions." ~ John Philip Sousa
12. "To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false." ~ John Philip Sousa
13. "The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed." ~ John Philip Sousa
14. "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
15. "Sincere composers believe in God." ~ John Philip Sousa
16. "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
17. "My religion lies in my composition." ~ John Philip Sousa
18. "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 can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?" ~ John Philip Sousa
19. "My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people." ~ John Philip Sousa
20. "Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains." ~ John Philip Sousa
21. "The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape." ~ John Philip Sousa
22. "You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer" ~ John Philip Sousa

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