I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.
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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
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
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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 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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