Author: John Philip Sousa

Quotes

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

- John Philip Sousa

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

- 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.

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.

- John Philip Sousa

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

- John Philip Sousa

Sincere composers believe in God.

Sincere composers believe in God.

- John Philip Sousa

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

- John Philip Sousa

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

- John Philip Sousa

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

- John Philip Sousa

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

- John Philip Sousa

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