John Philip Sousa Quotes

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John Philip Sousa

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 6, 1854

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

John Philip Sousa

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!

John Philip Sousa

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.

John Philip Sousa

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

John Philip Sousa

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

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.

John Philip Sousa

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

John Philip Sousa