Best quotes by John Philip Sousa on Music
Checkout quotes by John Philip Sousa on Music
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‟ Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
- John Philip Sousa
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‟ I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.
- John Philip Sousa
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‟ To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
- John Philip Sousa
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‟ There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.
- John Philip Sousa
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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.
- John Philip Sousa
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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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‟ Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
- John Philip Sousa
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‟ The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.
- John Philip Sousa
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‟ Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?
- John Philip Sousa
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‟ Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
- John Philip Sousa