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"A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you."
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."
"It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground."
"Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist."
"If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me."
Explore more quotes by John Philip Sousa
"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."
"There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!"
"Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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