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John Philip Sousa

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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.

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I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

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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.

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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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