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John Philip Sousa

"No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts."

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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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"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."
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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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"There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!"
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"Sincere composers believe in God."
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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."
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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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