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"Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself."
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"You were not born to make only a living but to live life."
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"Seek knowledge. Learning has no end. Learning makes you forever young."
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"PhD is possible at any age!"
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"To strive in life, we must either read or write a story."
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"We find ourselves in the pursuit of our dreams."
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"Read enough books to build your sacred soul."
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"You have to believe in your dreams, to reach out for your dreams."
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"Like a bird, fly against the wind of opinions to reach your destination."
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"You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
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"Without challenge we become too comfortable with life."
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"The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions."
Music
"Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains."
People
"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."
Music
"America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people."
People
"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."
Music
"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."
Quality
"There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!"
Spiritual
"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."
Music
"I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher."
Progress
"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?"
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