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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."
"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."
"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."
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Explore more quotes by 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."
"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."
"I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him."
"I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country."
"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."
"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."
"Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music."
"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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