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John Philip Sousa quotes: To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

John Philip Sousa quotes: The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope.

The red and white and starry blue
Is freedom's shield and hope.

John Philip Sousa quotes: 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.

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

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 quotes: My religion lies in my composition.

My religion lies in my composition.

John Philip Sousa quotes: Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

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

John Philip Sousa quotes: The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

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

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

John Philip Sousa quotes: Sincere composers believe in God.

Sincere composers believe in God.

John Philip Sousa quotes: Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains

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

John Philip Sousa quotes: 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.

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.

John Philip Sousa quotes: Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

John Philip Sousa quotes: A band is only as good as its euphonium section.

A band is only as good as its euphonium section.

John Philip Sousa quotes: I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

John Philip Sousa quotes: Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

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

John Philip Sousa quotes: No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

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

John Philip Sousa quotes: There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!

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

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 quotes: Nations will seldom obtain good national anthems by offering prizes for them. The man and the occasion must meet.

Nations will seldom obtain good national anthems by offering prizes for them. The man and the occasion must meet.

John Philip Sousa quotes: You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer

You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer

John Philip Sousa quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

John Philip Sousa quotes: America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

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