Sousa Music Quotes

#1. We strive to teach our children the importance of being caring and compassionate to others. This outpouring of emotion and effort by our children was so gratifying, and what they achieved absolutely exceeded our wildest expectations.

Jeff B. Davis

#2. There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, 'Who among us on salary are earning our income?'

Will Rogers

#3. You are amazing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. All I want to do is give the world my heart ... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

Erykah Badu

#5. 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.

John Philip Sousa

#6. Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?

John Philip Sousa

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

John Philip Sousa

#8. The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

Aristotle.

#9. Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

Emma Lazarus

#10. You had another tattoo done? What does it say?"
"Alex. It says, Alex. I guess I just needed something to remind me you were real, because after you left, there was nothing ... nothing to say you'd ever been here.

Samantha Towle

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

John Philip Sousa

#12. Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains

John Philip Sousa

#13. 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.

John Philip Sousa

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

John Philip Sousa

#15. I think I'm a good judge of character.

Tamara Ecclestone

#16. If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

Izaak Walton

#17. Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.

Thomas Jefferson

#18. The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

John Philip Sousa

#19. You may face many troubles. But the Lord will deliver you from each one.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

John Philip Sousa

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

John Philip Sousa

#22. 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

#23. I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.

John Philip Sousa

#24. I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue - or rather by vice - of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines

John Philip Sousa

#25. The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.

Paul Gibbons

#26. 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

#27. It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.

Dario Argento