“Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.”
John Philip Sousa“My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.”
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. ”
John Philip Sousa“Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.”
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.”
John Philip Sousa“Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.”
John Philip Sousa“Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains ”
John Philip Sousa“The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination.”
Guy Davenport