American - Musician | November 6, 1854 - March 6, 1932
My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.
John Philip Sousa
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Sincere composers believe in God.
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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.
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No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.
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My religion lies in my composition.
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I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.
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To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
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I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.
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