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It's good to vandalize one's own work.
— John P. Sousa
I say that inner beauty doesn't exist. That's something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves,
— Osmel 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
It's almost always sadder to stay than to depart
— Miguel Sousa Tavares
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
Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains
— John Philip Sousa
I've grown as a storyteller, and my comedic timing has gotten better.
— Melissa De Sousa
Regarding creating a new work ... Sometimes you have to beat it like a red-headed step-child.
— John P. Sousa
Sincere composers believe in God.
— John Philip Sousa
You cannot let people come up in your face and stop you.
— Melissa De Sousa
My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.
— 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
Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
— John Philip Sousa
My religion lies in my composition.
— John Philip Sousa
Educators are not neuroscientists, but they are members of the only profession in which their job is to change the human brain every day.
— David A. 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
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
A band is only as good as its euphonium section.
— John Philip Sousa
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
— John Philip Sousa
You have to have an attitude that nothing's gonna stop me. I think that's just my New York kind of attitude - survival of the fittest.
— Melissa De 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
Just go and keep auditioning and keep trying and keep believing things will turn around, and it always does.
— Melissa De Sousa
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
— John Philip Sousa
'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.
— Melissa De Sousa
No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
— John Philip Sousa
I've always been kind of an introvert growing up.
— Melissa De 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
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
Nations will seldom obtain good national anthems by offering prizes for them. The man and the occasion must meet.
— John Philip Sousa
Conservative, (New York, Beaufort Books,
— John Philip Sousa IV
You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer
— John Philip Sousa
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
The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.
— John Philip Sousa
