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"You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader."
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."
"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
"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."
"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 have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher."
"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."
"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."
"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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