John Philip Sousa Quotes
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I am one of those people who isn't great at anything, but I'm pretty good at most things.
— Tom Ford
Sin is man's, last attempt to perfection.
— Anthony Liccione
Cider House Rules
— Danielle Girard
Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.
— Charles Baudelaire
Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
— John Philip Sousa
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
My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.
— John Philip Sousa
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
— John Philip Sousa
Sincere composers believe in God.
— John Philip Sousa
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
Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains
— John Philip Sousa
James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
— Roger Ebert
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
My religion lies in my composition.
— John Philip Sousa
I was wracked with insecurity.
— Ray Romano
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
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
— John Philip Sousa
The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope. — John Philip Sousa
A band is only as good as its euphonium section.
— John Philip Sousa
America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.
— John Philip Sousa
The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.
— John Philip Sousa
Love isn't much of a legacy, Mr. Firas.""I think there's none better."
"It doesn't last."
"It doesn't have to. — Heidi Heilig
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
You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer
— John Philip Sousa
Conservative, (New York, Beaufort Books,
— John Philip Sousa IV
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
— John Philip Sousa
Nations will seldom obtain good national anthems by offering prizes for them. The man and the occasion must meet.
— John Philip Sousa
The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.
— Hal Lindsey
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
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
No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
— John Philip Sousa
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
— John Philip Sousa