Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
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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
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
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My religion lies in my composition.
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.
John Philip Sousa
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
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The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.
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