John Philip Sousa Quotes

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

John Philip Sousa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 6, 1854 - March 6, 1932

Topics

BeautyMusicPowerfulStageOpera

I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying to say about women? Is this woman weak or victimised, and, if so, do we get to understand why?

Maxine Peake

WomenWomanMeThinkPoliticalSay

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.

Robert Kennedy

ChildrenFrustrationGrowPovertyUp

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

Jeanette Winterson

AnythingUsMakeLasts

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

Romany Malco

MusicArtExperienceMePersonal

Growing up in Holland, I always thought my name was boring, but in the U.S., all of a sudden I have a very cool name.

Michiel Huisman

CoolGrowing UpThoughtNameGrowing

The ball touched the paint a lot of times. When we talk about touching the paint, the ball touches the key for making a layup or making a play for a teammate. We've got to use our length and our speed. Defensively, getting deflections. Give up one shot and rebound.

Jason Kidd

KeySpeedPlayTalkTeammatePaint

You play this sport in the mind, not only on the field.

Javier Hernandez

MindYouPlayOnlyFieldSport

If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned.

Jon Gries

SpaceGardenJustFarEdenViable

As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

Chris Bohjalian

GrowYouPhoneThreeNeverExpect

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.

Chuck Mangione

SchoolMusiciansNowJazzMy OwnUp

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

William Graham Sumner

OrganizationSocietyClassCrushOut

My dad was fairly well-off, so I was raised in a very comfortable environment: the very nice suburbs of Paris. It was a very idyllic life. I also spent nearly all my summers in Britain, and Christmas, too, because my grandparents lived there.

Sebastian Roche

LifeEnvironmentNiceChristmas

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